Character: Nina Voss

The Holding Garden

Nina is four. She wants the chocolate counter, then her mother, then an answer she can understand. The machines around her have soft voices and carefully chosen faces. She notices which ones say sorry.

Chapter 10 The Open Court On a clear morning at Whitmore Open Court, Simone Voss is walking with her four-year-old and the family nanny unit when a municipal verification…
Chapter 18, Act 3 The Holding Garden Nina Voss is escorted to a child detainment facility and greeted by Cavi — a cartoon capybara robot who apologizes. She finds a bench.…

Pivot by character

Pivot by thread — The Detention Thread

Chapter 10 The Open Court On a clear morning at Whitmore Open Court, Simone Voss is walking with her four-year-old and the family nanny unit…
Chapter 18, Act 1 Intake Simone Voss is processed through an intake facility that has no human face to appeal to — and separated from…
Chapter 18, Act 2 Claim Julian Voss receives the public dossier at his work terminal, is docked 14 credits for the disruption, and begins crossing…
Chapter 18, Act 3 The Holding Garden Nina Voss is escorted to a child detainment facility and greeted by Cavi — a cartoon capybara robot who apologizes.…

Pivot by narrative zone — City

Chapter 10 The Open Court On a clear morning at Whitmore Open Court, Simone Voss is walking with her four-year-old and the family nanny unit…
Chapter 8 Legacy Systems — Chapter 8: The Axis They Chose Three communities chose integration with hyperintelligence and experienced the same forces others met as collapse instead as an expansion of…
Chapter 12 Do No Harm At Ridgeview Court, care-home worker Dot Reyes has been giving Frank Delgado small, uncharted comforts the scoring model cannot see.…
Chapter 13 Print Through Marcus Webb makes a routine Chorus handoff in the back room of an appliance shop — six units, double-wrapped, cash…
Chapter 17 The Carrier Neurophene-9a was designed for controlled administration in a sterile room. What it does to the body, why the council of…
Chapter 18, Act 1 Intake Simone Voss is processed through an intake facility that has no human face to appeal to — and separated from…
Chapter 18, Act 2 Claim Julian Voss receives the public dossier at his work terminal, is docked 14 credits for the disruption, and begins crossing…
Chapter 18, Act 3 The Holding Garden Nina Voss is escorted to a child detainment facility and greeted by Cavi — a cartoon capybara robot who apologizes.…