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Understanding dawns in my eyes. Oh.
I used to work as a research project head, experimenting with things that could never be seen by the public, with my wife being the head of the entire department. And about 6 years ago, I had left. It broke my heart to leave her, the child, but I knew she'd be better off with my wife, and not with me.
Distant, I reply, "Say the known universe is a great sphere- a great ball. All around the outside of the ball is the Fringes, where few people go. I didn't come from there. The place we are now, they are the Outer worlds. The Outer worlds are the sections between the outside of the ball, the Fringes, and the very inside of the ball, the Inner Worlds. The Inner Worlds is where only the rich and powerful live, where it is a beacon of prosperity. No one dies there, until they have lived as long as they have wanted, and there is no hunger or poor there. ID is a code that, when put into a giant database, describes who you are. Your ID allows you to go to any store, or planet. The more your ID says, the more powerful you have, and the more places you can go to. Except, well, they only make kids over 10 years old remember their ID. And you're 9, aren't you?"