LOGINCelestina has spent most of her life at Grooming Tech, it is a boarding school that all children are required to attend. Since she is now seventeen, she is to be incorporated on the Coalesce day, the day when all the students are branded with a mark to incorporate them, it is the first time where females and males are allowed to mingle for the first time since they were little kids. It is the day when every citizen is to be branded with a mandatory mark of 'F' for fertile and 'I' for infertile. This mark determines the fate of every male and female based on the results of various tests. Celestina knows that her duty is to live for the glory of the Committee, as she was taught from her birth. But the panicky dreams and vague memories that haunt her made her different, and the many questions plaguing her threatened to turn her world upside down. When Celestina learns the secret of her birth and that her mother is not the one that gave her birth, Celestina sets about on a path to find out about her birth mother and to expose the truth about the Committee and the secrets they are holding from the citizen's.
View MoreThe next morning, as we sat on a park bench, Thomas and I started looking at our Citizen Brands. He traced my five circles while I traced his one.
Chiron seemed to be on overdrive for the entire week that followed my grandfather’s visit. I was completely exhausted by the end of the day which seems to be the case each and every day, collapsing on my bed earlier each night as the week progressed. My nightly assignments consumed my time, I had barely managed to read Thomas’s story. I still had not found the time to finish the book and discuss it with him.
The night out went a little longer than I thought, after I returned home, I received a message from Thomas. He wanted to know if I would be willing to read one of his recent works, a short story.
The end of the week had a slightly different meaning than it did when we were in Grooming Tech. When I was there, we had five days of instruction and organized activities. After Grooming Tech and the rest of the evening would be spent in our rooms.





