The Order

Your pulse tells the truth. Your silence is the lie.

Eighteen-year-old Alexandria has always known her place: quiet, invisible, obedient. In a world rebuilt by the Twenty-Ninth Amendment-a world that promises stability through total biometric transparency-she clings to the predictability of school lessons, cross-country runs, and the heavy silence of her grandmother's house.

But for an elite athlete at Classical High, "stability" comes with a price: the DPU. A biometric monitor strapped to th...