a long time, Aaron. It’s amazing what we were able to accomplish once we stopped fighting amongst ourselves. All frenatus have access to resources, a small trust fund if you will. We don’t have to work for a living, but the majority of us do. The trust fund only supplies the bare necessities to live—enough for a modest apartment, a car, food, etc. As our population doesn’t expand that much, the pie slices don’t get much smaller as time goes on.”

Aaron carefully replaced the spear in the rack. “What do you mean we don’t expand that much?”

“We limit how many people we infect,” Craig dryly said.

“What about births?” Aaron asked. “Is the infection passed from generation to generation?”

Craig shook his head. &...

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