The doctor took your voice away mere minutes after you were born. Even your mother couldn't hear you. Now, over two hundred years after the Silent Night Bill passed, people silently walk the streets, flicking and tapping away at their communication pads while carefully choosing each word so they don't end up like the ones with missing fingers or entire hands.
And for years she was the same as everyone else, nervous when Civility Agents requested a meeting or frightened when Voice Agents rounded people up for interrogation after some rebel group bombed a government building. She avoided Traitor's Alley where those found guilty of Speech crimes are hung. She believed that every monitored transmission was to keep them safe. And when the government covered up the truth about a tragedy, she stayed silent to keep what remained of her life.
But when she loses everything she holds dear, there's no choice but to fight back.
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