THREE – Hide Three weeks had passed since the government controversially voted in its initiative to relocate the Shadow class; officially the contentious policy had been called the Exodus, however, the Shadow class referred to the programme of blatant targeted human cleansing with a more apt name – the Rout. Thus far he had managed to evade the Peacekeeper patrols tasked with escorting the Shadow class out of the metropolis. Although some of the law enforcers had swept the outer perimeter of the Wild, none had ventured into the heart of the metropolis’ urban wilderness. Prior to the Rout, his fellow Shadow class members had labelled him the fool when first he declared his intent to forge a home in the Wild. Now that foolish decision was the only thing keeping him beyond the reach of the P

