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here to fall on them. You may have heard a rumour, he says. That there are new settlers coming. My stomach twists again. I tell you as your President, he says. The rumour is true. How does he know How does he ruddy know The crowd starts to murmur at this news, men and women. The Mayor lets them, happily talking over them. We will be ready to greet them he says. We will be a proud society ready to welcome them into a new Eden His voice is rising again. We will show them that they have left Old World and entered PARADISE Lots more murmuring now, talking everywhere. I am going to take your cure away from you, the Mayor says. And boy, does the murmuring stop. The Mayor lets it, lets the silence build up, and then he says, For now. The men look at one another and back to the Mayor. We are entering a new era, Mayor Prentiss says. You will earn my trust by joining me in creating a new society. As that new society is built and as we meet our first challenges and celebrate our first successes, you will earn the right to be called men again. You will earn the right to have your cure returned to you and that will be the moment all men truly will be brothers. Hes not looking at the women. Neither are the men in the crowd. Women got no use for the reward of a cure, do they It will be difficult, he continues. I dont pretend otherwise. But it will be rewarding. He gestures towards the army. My deputies have already begun to organize you. You will continue to follow their instructions but I assure you they will never be too onerous and you will soon see that I am not your conqueror. I am not your doom. I am not, he pauses again, your enemy. He turns his head across the crowd of men one last time. I am your saviour, he says. And even without hearing their Noise, I watch the crowd wonder if theres a chance hes telling the truth, if maybe thingsll be okay after all, if maybe, despite what they feared, theyve been let off the hook. You aint, I think. Not by a long shot. Even before the crowds have started to properly leave after the Mayors finished, theres a kerthunk at my door. Good evening, Todd, the Mayor says, stepping into the bellringing jail and looking around him, wrinkling his nose a little at the smell. Did you like my speech How do you know there are settlers coming I say. Have you been talking to her Is she all right He dont answer this but he dont hit me for it neither. He just smiles and says, All in good time, Todd. We hear Noise coming up the stairs outside the door. Alive, Im alive it says alive alive alive and into the room comes Mayor Ledger, pushed by Mr Collins. He pulls up his step when he sees Mayor Prentiss standing there. New bedding will arrive tomorrow, Mayor Prentiss says, still looking at me. As will toilet privileges. Mayor Ledgers moving his jaw but it takes a few tries before any words come out. Mr President Mayor Prentiss ignores him. Your first job will also begin tomorrow, Todd.

Job I say. Everyone has to work, Todd, he says. Work is the path to freedom. I will be working. So will Mr Ledger. I will Mayor Ledger says. But were in jail, I say. He smiles again and theres more amusement in it and I wonder how Im about to be stung. Get some sleep, he says, stepping to the door and looking me in the eye. My son will collect you first thing in the morning. The New Life But it turns out it aint Davy that worries me when I get dragged into the cold of the next morning in front of the cathedral. It aint even Davy I look at. Its the horse. Boy colt, it says, shifting from hoof to hoof, looking down at me, eyes wide in that horse craziness, like I need a good stomping. I dont know nothing bout horses, I say. Shes from my private herd, Mayor Prentiss says atop his own horse, Morpeth. Her name is Angharrad and she will treat you well, Todd. Morpeth is looking at my horse and all hes thinking is Submit , submit , submit , making my horse even more nervous and thats a ton of nervous animal Im sposed to ride. Whatsa matter Davy Prentiss sneers from the saddle of a third horse. You scared Whatsa matter I say. Daddy not give you the cure yet His Noise immediately rises. You little piece of My, my, says the Mayor. Not ten words in and the fights already begun. He started it, Davy says. And he would finish it, too, I wager, says the Mayor, looking at me, reading the red, jittery state of my Noise, filled with urgent red askings about Viola, with more askings I wanna take outta Davy Prentisss hide. Come, Todd, the Mayor says, reining his horse. Ready to be a leader of men Its a simple division, he says as we trot thru the early morning, way faster than Id like. The men will move to the west end of the valley in front of the cathedral and the women to the east behind it. Were riding east down the main street of New Prentisstown, the one that starts at the zigzag road by the falls, carries thru to the town square and around the cathedral and now out the back into the farther valley. Small squads of soldiers march up and down side roads and the men of New Prentisstown come past us the other way on foot, carrying rucksacks and other luggage. I dont see no women, Davy says. Any women, corrects the Mayor. And no, Captain Morgan and Captain Tate supervised the transfer of the rest of the women last night. What are you gonna do with em I say, my knuckles gripping so hard on the saddle horn theyre turning white. He looks back at me. Nothing, Todd. They will be treated with the care and dignity that befits their importance to the future of New World. He turns away. But for now, separate is best. You put the bitches in their place, Davy sneers. You will not speak that way in front of me, David, the Mayor says, calmly but in a voice that aint joking. Women will be respected at all times and given every comfort. Though in a nonvulgar sense you are correct. We all have places. New World made men forget theirs, and that means men must be away from women until we all remember who we are, who we were meant to be. His voice brightens a little. The people will welcome this. I offer clarity where before there was only chaos. Is Viola with the women I ask. Is she okay He looks back at me again. You made a promise, Todd Hewitt, he says. Need I remind you once more Just save her and Ill do anything you want, I believe were your exact words. I lick my lips nervously. How do I know yer keeping yer end of the bargain You dont, he says, his eyes on mine, like hes peering right past every lie I could tell him. I want your faith in me, Todd, and faith with proof is no faith at all. He turns back down the road and Im left with Davy snickering to my side so I just whisper Whoa, girl, to my horse. Her coat is dark brown with a white stripe down her nose and a mane brushed so nice Im trying not to grab onto it less it make her mad. Boy colt, she thinks.

She, I think. She. Then I think an asking I aint never had a chance to ask before. Cuz the ewes I had back on the farm had Noise, too, and if women aint got Noise Because women are not animals, the Mayor says, reading me. No matter what anyone claims I believe. They are merely naturally Noiseless. He lowers his voice. Which makes them different. Its mostly shops that line this part of the road, dotted twixt all the trees, closed, reopening who knows when, with houses stretching back from side streets both towards the river on the left and the hill of the valley on the right. Most of the buildings, if not all, are built a fair distance from one another, which I spose is how youd plan a big town before you found a cure for the Noise. We pass more soldiers marching in groups of five or ten, more men heading west with their belongings, still no women. I look at the faces of the men going by, most of them pointed to the road at their feet, none of them looking ready to fight. Whoa, girl, I whisper again cuz riding a horse is turning out to be powerfully uncomfortable on yer private bits. And theres Todd, Davy says, pulling up next to me. Moaning already. Shut it, Davy, I say. You will address each other as Mr Prentiss Jr and Mr Hewitt, the Mayor calls back to us. What Davy says, his Noise rising. He aint a man yet Hes just The Mayor silences him with a look. A body was discovered in the river in the early hours of this morning, he says. A body with many terrible wounds to its flesh and a large knife sticking out of its neck, a body dead not more than two days. He stares at me, looking into my Noise again. I put up the pictures he wants to see, making my imaginings seem like the real thing, cuz thats what Noise is, its everything you think, not just the truth, and if you think hard enough that you did something, well, then, maybe you actually did. Davy scoffs. You killed Preacher Aaron I dont believe it. The Mayor dont say nothing, just gees Morpeth along a little faster. Davy sneers at me, then kicks his own horse to follow. Follow, Morpeth nickers. Follow, Davys horse whinnies back. Follow, thinks my own horse, taking off after them, bouncing me even worse. As we go, Im on the constant look out for her, even tho theres no chance of seeing her. Even if shes still alive, shed still be too sick to walk, and if she werent too sick to walk, shed be locked up with the rest of the women. But I keep looking (cuz maybe she escaped) (maybe shes looking for me) (maybe shes) And then I hear it. I am the Circle and the Circle is me. Clear as a bell, right inside my head, the voice of the Mayor, twining around my own voice, like its speaking direktly into my Noise, so sudden and real I sit up and nearly fall off my horse. Davy looks surprised, his Noise wondering what Im reacting to. But the Mayor just rides on down the road, like nothing happened at all.

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