OAKHAVEN
The sunrise over Oakhaven was a cold, artificial gold, filtered through the massive weather-control grids that kept our city in a state of perpetual, controlled pleasantness. Today was Selection Day. Usually, the city would be filled with the sound of music, celebrations, and families gathered around their screens, waiting for the results that would determine who would ascend to the Towers and who would descend into the mines.
But today, the air felt thick, heavy with the electricity of a storm that hadn't broken yet.