EPILOGUE
And that, my friends, is how I came to be standing here, in Sector D, looking up at the wall that divides us and the Shoovers in Sector C.
As you may have guessed, Sestra and I toured Sector A and won over the population. As long as they weren’t going to suffer a drastic drop in their own living standards, the people had no problem with those who lived in the other sectors raising theirs. The border crossing has been open to all for almost three years and there are now no restrictions on travelling between sectors. So the divide is more in name than a physical barrier. The wall has been partly demolished – about 1,700 metres has been removed from the top down – and the moat removed. It’s just the last 300 metres of the wall that needs to be brought down now. Once this wall is go
