Over the next six months, while the Facility’s doctors dosed her with experimental “pre-treatments” that made her actually sick, Elara built a quiet rebellion. She taught other UNSTABLES how to read their raw infraexam data—the probability scores, the confidence intervals, the algorithmic footnotes that most citizens never saw. She showed them the wobble in the numbers, the telltale rounding that proved the 7% target.
Being CLEAR meant you went to work, hugged your children, and lived normally. Being UNSTABLE meant a grey van arrived within the hour to take you to a Reorientation Facility. You weren't sick. You were pre-sick . And pre-sickness was a civic threat. infraexams
He let her go. Then he let Corin go. Then Jaya. Then Mira. Over the next six months, while the Facility’s