ASIN: B00KLN3292
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 209
Io Mira is skilled at two things: exploration and trouble-making. She takes pride in her expertise, and spends her days sneaking around the deepest corners of the isolated, white-walled city she calls home, stealing food and provoking the guards, pushing the boundaries of her encapsulated existence though she knows that there is no outside world to speak of.The Governors – oligarchical rulers of the city – present all citizens with a choice when they reach the age of fourteen: sight or prosperity. Live a life of luxury without ever seeing the world around you, or live a life of servitude with your vision intact. Become a Plenty, or become an Optic. It’s a senseless ultimatum, Io knows, just another absurd exercise of the Governors’ power over the citizens they claim as their own, but still the decision must be made.So Io chooses sight.A few days later, she wakes up in the darkness with ...
