Status Updates From We Lived on the Horizon

Enita meets w Helen (long term friend, gf it’s complicated) her own AI has been monitoring systems and before Ono was killed a water treatment plant went offline, she says Sainted have to stay small in # and be isolated

H thinks there’s going to be a revolution, Sainted might have to flee, Enita is hesitant to leave a place her family for generations laid roots to and helped build and she doesn’t want to leave Nix

Narin wakes up! And ooh is she mad, Nix attempts to ping her mothers AI Home but gets no response

Joanie her sister comes back and they leave together but Narin feels so betrayed

Nix uses we pronouns because they are a collection of units not just one, they tell Enita that they can’t reach part of the city network when tracking Joanie and Narin and that the absence on info flowing in Parallax is like when Ono died

Narin’s two siblings Joanie and Tomas discuss they are worried and fed up w the destruction of constant martyrdom has done to their sister, Tomas is friends w an Assessor (ppl who interview and screen martyrs to ensure it’s safe and consenting and connect them to saints)

Helen notes that archival data from the Stacks doesn’t go past 10 years and even Ono’s incident isn’t there, nix was only able to get info by trading for info about Enita that for some reason the stacks are interested in

but once they see surgical scars that aren’t hidden they realize she’s a martyr and effed up, she can’t martyr anymore w artificial limbs and even if they took it out she’d still have nanotechnology inside forbidding her, the ppl leave after the surgery

Sainted, elite class descendants of the class w the greatest sacrifices to build Bulwark, Ono was one and was given a transplant to extend his life

2ppl bring in Narin, w a bad leg after getting caught in a building collapse and they didn’t want to run up her debt going to a hospital, Enita and Nix operate on her to give her a new leg

Nix connects to St Lucius Ono’s AI to ask to view the footage before he died and they are firewalled after relaying it, 5 additional heartbeats post death were detected… dam 5v1

Martyrs are those who are organ donors, wear their surgical scars w pride, pay off debts and are rewarded w this payment, free schooling and social pride, Enita herself has received a kidney when she was young

Enita, bio-prosthetic dr w a house AI Nix that was around for her grandpa too, black market nickname is Stitch Skin, lives in Bulwark a walled city

City-wide lockdown after St. Lucius Ono was found dead at home stabbed 13x

She’s building a body for Nix as she’s nearing 70 and wants to have a living legacy of her knowledge and talents in the field