Ma Grace shuffled in and pulled her husband to the hall.
"Pa Joe, you can't be serious?"
"On the contrary, I'm very serious. Do you want our daughter to be feared? Do you want her to be hated for something that isn't her fault?" Pa Joe seemed that he had come up with the greatest idea and disregarded any objections.
"Pa Joe! This is not something we can do! This is against the Rule, against the Code... against Society. Meeting the Conqueror is completely out of bounds! Have you heard the rumours of that Plouthanian? I can not commit to this."
Her voice rose with infury. She balled her hand into a fist and (for the first time in her life) shook it at her husband.
"Would you rather your daughter, the Eve of the family, suffer life's greatest consequence alone?" Pa Joe spoke with sincerity.
"No," his wife admitted, "that is the last thing that I want. I just want our children to be safe. It's a manipulative world we live in... not like Earth. How could she possibly understand the difference?"
"We can train her." Pa Joe stabled her arm in his hand, "We can teach her how to win. We can teach her how."
"Joseph. Listen to yourself! How can we, two Plauthanians, possibly teach Orva how to..." she couldn't bring herself to say the word.
"Hack?" Pa Joe finished, "Don't worry. The Conqueror knows what to do." Ma Grace's face was lifted to meet his eyes.
"Do you trust me?"
Ma Grace hesitated, "Always."
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I am a Hacker
Science FictionOrva Melodie Willower is destined to be a Willower like her father, however this all changes the moment she takes her administration. The Administrators have the power to accept the youths into society. They choose whether a person is eligible to li...
