Chapter 6
After lunch, each of us was assigned to a Monitor, to watch what they did on a regular shift and ask questions, if we had any. My Monitor was a balding man around my father’s age, thin and tall, so tall he towered over me even when seated. The screens in his cubicle all showed rooms in office buildings, where people were working at various jobs around the Colony. He showed me how to turn the screens on and off, how to switch between active screens, and even how to scroll through the rooms he was assigned to watch during his shift. The dozen screens were just a small sample of what he had to keep up with, it seemed. There were more than thirty screens assigned to each cubicle, and a few keystrokes could flip to a whole new set of screens.
“I thought we weren’t being watched when
