![]() ![]() ![]() But in young Vesper’s mind, she is confident that she will be able to engineer a way to decode the seeds and remove the single-harvest characteristic from them. How Does Vesper Find A New Chance For The Outsiders To Grow Food On Their Own?Īlthough Vesper manages to steal the seeds, they are clearly not worth much since they would only yield one harvest, and they would again have to depend on Jonas’ supply. On her way out, though, she also spots a few citadel drones flying in the sky, of which one falls out and crashes, and this poses a new possibility in Vesper’s young life. One day, while sneaking around Jonas’ farm in search of food and medicine, Vesper gets hold of a great treasure-she manages to enter a room full of seeds that Jonas had received from the citadel and steals a few of them. Vesper, too, has had to give her blood to get some minor help from her uncle once or twice, but she denies turning into a blood-breeding machine for Jonas. However, Jonas is a crooked leader of a group of outsiders, and he runs a business of trading the blood of young children in exchange for food and resources with the citadels. When she finds her father struggling for life without power because his heart and other organs are supported and kept running through external power, Vesper looks for help at her uncle Jonas’ farm. Along with that, there are also raiders and bandits who go around looting and, on one occasion, visit Vesper’s house as well, taking away all the power resources. The world has other factions of danger, too, for a group of humans calling themselves the pilgrims mysteriously roam around, scavenging any and every metal they can find, and Vesper’s mother, too, had joined this group of pilgrims. It is with this drone, essentially her father, that Vesper goes around searching for new plants and forms of life to gather for food, medicine, and her own research. The father, Darius, is bedridden and cannot move or speak on his own but communicates through the body of a metallic drone. However, her responsibilities weigh more than her respite for passionate experimentation, for Vesper has to look after her ailing father, especially since her mother left them about a year or so ago. In such a world, Vesper is a thirteen-year-old girl with an exceptional talent for studying organisms of this new world and creating new life by mixing them with each other. Even more harshly, these seeds traded are coded to produce a single harvest, and therefore the outsiders need to forever stay in need of the mercy of the citadels. ![]() Although these citadels grow their own food from the seeds they had presumably preserved before the apocalypse, those outside rely only on these seeds that the citadels trade with them in exchange for other items. On the one hand are the rich and affluent, who live in protected cities called citadels, and on the other hand, everyone else, who are never permitted into these citadels. While some humans survived, all food sources, be they plants or animals, were wiped out and left human society starkly divided. Instead, genetically engineered viruses and other harmful organisms escaped into the world and killed off vast numbers of life forms. Humans had made an attempt to prevent the ecological crisis by investing in genetic technology largely, but the process ultimately had failed. Set in the future world termed the New Dark Ages, the plot unfolds in a barren wasteland. ![]()
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