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“This program, By Popular Vote, is brought to you by your corporate sponsors at Zanaquil.”
The screens lighting up on every surface across the city flashed in a twenty-second ad for some pharmaceutical product guaranteed to “make you satisfied with the life you never knew you wanted.” It made Lukas sick. This entire travesty had somehow been made into a form of entertainment, designed to falsely empower the masses and subdue them long enough for the Consortium to get away with murder. And no one seemed to think it strange.
He couldn’t help but wonder how many alleged criminals had perished in this way, how many more would be falsely accused, imprisoned, charged, and executed. He knew now that was what these monstrous people intended to do with Jesse, no matter what anyone else in the
