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fighting against the hands and arms that restrain me. I can’t so much as budge. I must have bitten my tongue, because I taste blood in my mouth.
    Then, as suddenly as it started, it stops.
    “This night didn’t happen,” a man’s voice says in my ears. Softly. Almost cooing it.
    I know it should freak me out, him talking to me like I’m a baby, but I can’t summon the energy or want to care.
    “What you saw tonight, after you saw Evelyn in the service tunnels, never happened.”
    “What I saw tonight, after I saw Evelyn, never happened,” my mouth says without me consciously wanting to say anything.
    “You met up with her. Asked her to Couple with you, and when she said yes, you parted ways. You returned back to your apartment immediately so you wouldn’t miss curfew, and tried to holo your parents to tell them the good news.”
    “I met up with her. Asked her to Couple with me. She said yes, and we parted ways. I returned back to my apartment immediately so I wouldn’t miss curfew, and tried to holo my parents to tell them the good news.”
    “They didn’t answer, but it was late, so you assumed they were asleep. You decided to call them in the morning. After you heard from Evelyn about what Mother had said about the Coupling.”
    “They didn’t answer, but it was late, so I assumed they were asleep. I decided to call them in the morning. After I heard from Evelyn what Mother had said about the Coupling.”
    “You will go to see Evelyn tomorrow. After morning tea, while she is in her gardens.”
    “I will go to see Evelyn tomorrow. After morning tea, while she is in her gardens.”
    A chair squeaks and he mumbles to someone else in the room. “Anything else?”
    “No. I believe that will do nicely,” Mother says. “Thank you, Dr. Friar. Once again, you’ve proved to be most helpful.”
    The chair squeaks again and he says, louder this time. “Very good, Timothy. The guards will help you to your apartment now, so you can sleep.”
    I’m vaguely aware of my restraints being removed, but I’m completely numb. I can’t move. It’s as if my entire body is just floating in nothing, with nothing touching me. I can’t see anything. I can’t feel anything. I can’t taste anything.
    I don’t even smell the stench of my parents’ congealing blood.
     

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    Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.
    But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren’t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster.
    Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb… and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.
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