simply draws out that knowledge to a place we can make use of it. Zane described it as ‘back of house’ and ‘front of house.’ The hue simply transferred one to the other.” I felt my temples. “You

Hanson said nothing and instead tapped the barcode on my index finger. “The drones scan by line of sight only. All specimens on this Reserve work on legacy tech five centuries old. Your barcodes allow us identification data, nothing more, so positional data has to be drone-assessed at twice-daily intervals. Reserve Thirteen to the west of here uses

I could suddenly see the colour of music, and sense the softness of red. The dog’s barking grew louder until suddenly, it all cut out and everything seemed to swim back to normality.

“Anything. Something I don’t know and never could.” He stared at me for a moment. “You don’t have a name. You’re HE-315-PJ7A-M and generation twenty-four from Time Zero. You popped up on our database twenty years ago and your entire life is eighteen hundred lines of text, almost all of it geographic movements. Have you procreated yet?”

It seemed the players spent their lives not performing, but preserving.

Utopiainc?”

don’t know. It just felt like the right thing to do.” “We call that a vestigial recollection,” said Hanson, “a subconscious window into a small trove of customs and beliefs that you are not currently permitted to access.”

“Maybe we should go back to basics,” she said. “What do we actually know for certain?” Harry answered—it was becoming easier to understand him—and he outlined what we all learned at school: that we lived on a watery planet that orbited the sun and that there were five other planets in the solar system. We had a moon which drove the tides by way of

They would tackle speed and endurance events but not urban freestyle, as the last East Carmine resident to try any sort of trick on the Penny-Farthing now repots seedlings in the greenhouse using the fullest extent of their intellect.