Erasure Games

Every citizen in the HRAR has a compliance score. It follows them from birth. It determines everything. Athena Osei has spent her life learning how the system thinks. She knows its categories. She knows its language. She knows what it wants to see.What she does not know is why she was chosen for the Erasure Games.Eighty days. Thirty candidates. Six behavioural categories. One objective: prove you are not a liability. Alongside her is Mateo, a candidate whose answers are too perfect. Whose compliance looks engineered. As Athena's scores climb, she begins to understand what the highest score actually costs.The candidates who pass the Erasure Games always come back different. Athena intends to pass. She is not willing to pay that price.