Change didn’t happen overnight. I knew it wouldn’t, but I would be lying if I said I hadn’t hoped Zan and I could bring it about quickly.
The first thing he did was oust the Council. It felt so satisfying to stand beside him and face the four angry Council members as they were dismissed. A cache of Officers behind us were ready to enforce the Overseer’s words. When one of the men threw himself at us, an Officer stepped up, injector pen in hand, to quell the threat. Instead of an increased dose in his pills, though, the man was taken to the basement level of the Oversight Center, where a makeshift prison had been set up for those resistant to change.
I was happy to see that he was the only one who had to be detained.
An election was held, letting the people of the Colony have some say in
