The Prime Tenet, etched into the foundation stone of every building and whispered into the ears of newborns, was simple: Harmony is achieved through the absence of singular thought.
Kaelen was a Recalibrator, a mid-level functionary in the Bureau of Ideological Purity. His job was to patrol the dream-feed at night, snipping aberrant neural pathways before they could bloom into "individual conclusions." He was good at it. Efficient. A model citizen. Dogma Ptj 001
He walked out of the Spire. The rain-mist was still falling, but for the first time, he didn't try to avoid it. It felt, he realized, like tears. And that was fine. That was singular. That was the end of Dogma Ptj 001. The Prime Tenet, etched into the foundation stone