Divide
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In the future, life is a privilege.
Sixteen year-old Merit Overseer is only sure of one thing in his life: that he will not live another year. In his dystopian country of Control, being sixteen means you are required to take a hellish test called the Division, a test designed to discover the few people worthy of being citizens. After the Collapse destroyed the rest of the world, the few survivors realized the cause of the downfall of nations was in fact the fault of their own greedy citizens. And the Division was created. The rules of the test are simple: you pass, and you live. You fail, and you are executed.
Merit has long feared the day his Division would come, but now it is here. He knows he will not, but he is determined to make it back, for his family. All he has left. However, Merit has something special. Something the country has never seen. And he is not the only one who possesses it.
But nothing will happen as expected. Lives will be lost, love will be born and tested, and one choice will change Control forever.
*THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT, PROBABLY NEEDS MAJOR REVISION.*
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