Tomorrow is the day the boy becomes a man. That is how it works out there. On their fifteenth birthday, children get to choose whether they want to live quietly or help the rebellion. This boy has known for as long as he can remember what he will choose. For generations, his family has stuck to the same tradition and he knows what the next few weeks will have in store for him. When the fences went up so many years ago, keeping out the rebels, people were forced to live like animals. But his great great grandfather changed that and brought peace to his people. Eventually they gathered a large enough force to start rebelling against the Ministers and their System. Slowly and quietly the rebels have been whittling away at the systems, going near enough un-noticed as they worked against them. Soon all of the pieces will be in place, the pieces the rebels have been so carefully setting up for years, getting them ready to knock down the other team's king without them even noticing they were on the board until they were in checkmate. Tomorrow the boy will choose offence or defence and another piece will be slotted into place, getting ever closer to the winning move. The boy knows what to do, has been waiting for this his whole life, and knows how he will spend the next few years, if not his whole life. knows that whatever he does he will still end up waiting. Sitting and waiting. Feeling completely irrelevant but knowing that he is utterly essential. Knowing that every little thing goes towards the larger goal, even if it may not seem like it at the time.
Slow and steady wins the race.
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Haven
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