“The Elders always tell us to report people like him.

They say they’re dangerous. But he’s just…old. Living in that old plane hull outside the gates. I asked him if he wanted to come inside, but he just said no. He’d be killed.

The only dangerous thing about him is that he’s smart. He told me I’d get in trouble for talking to him, but the things he says are just so interesting. He says the Elders lie to us, to keep us ignorant. The things they teach the kids in my class are all untrue. They keep us in the dark.

He says his father’s father saw the Elders come into power. He said that people made them, to help with their work. But the Elders got smarter and smarter until they didn’t need people anymore.

I worry though. I’ve learned a lot from him. I’m smarter than everyone I know, and I think the Elders have noticed. I’ve been trying to avoid the monitor patrols. He said if something happened to him, I had to tell someone. So the truth isn’t lost.

Here they come.

Spread the truth. No matter how false."