“It’s not fair, you know,” he says, “Our whole lives planned out by people who will never even know who we are and that’s why we can’t stay like this.”
“But that’s the way it is, isn’t it?” I ask him, voice low, “We’ve known each other for all these years, but still. That’s just the way it is.”
“And why do we have to care about the way things are?”
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at·a·vis·tic; ˌatəˈvistik/: Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.
Ver and Jack have been best friends for nearly their entire lives, undeterred by the social gap between them. Despite their seemingly idyllic childhood in their seemingly idyllic world, it doesn't take long for both of them to realize that what they have, and who they are, have no place in this new society. A society where everything has already been scheduled and written out for them, where they already have their assigned duties.
But where is there to go?
