Six
The Raising Centers were a huge complex of buildings outside the main city. They looked menacing against the dark night sky—shiny white cubes with square windows and a massive staircase leading to the main entrance, where glass doors were monitored by one of the best security systems on the planet. The Raising Centers were guarded even more strictly than the governmental buildings by the river. No wonder, they contained the future of the Global Union, the future of the planet—the DNA samples mixed in laboratories to create the perfect combinations in embryos, all the logs documenting these processes, the artificial wombs that incubated the next generations. This realization made Rahab sick, and the alcohol in her blood contributed to the sensation. Yet the concept had become so very n
