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soon if he just had a doctor’s appointment earlier today.
    I give a little wave while taking one look back at Mr. Frank. Even with a lanky body and back that has steadily stooped more over the years as his age continues to show, the top of his head is just about a foot away from the shed’s roof. He’s by far the tallest person in Impetus.
    Gavin once told me that in The Before, there were buildings that stood as tall as sixty of our buildings stacked on top of one another. I’ve seen pictures but never knew the facts behind them. These were demolished during the wars and never rebuilt as officials discovered Remedy need levels increase dramatically the higher from ground you get. The Lightstones are the only edifice set higher than all the other buildings since they provide natural light for the community during the Sleeping Hours; but even they fail to compare in height to the thickets that surround Impetus.
    The Lightstones are now guarded every night because of an incident that happened around the time I was born. The legend is of a boy who wanted to see like the birds in the sky. Since the thickets are impossible to scale, he set out during the Sleeping Hours to climb the Lightstones. As he ascended higher and higher, his monitor started beeping, warning him of the need for Remedy to regulate his body. The boy only made it two-thirds of the way before his body stopped functioning completely and he fell to his death. This situation then caused an even bigger problem when there was a higher demand of extra pills to help community members deal with the death of the little boy. The consequence of this all resulted in a Remedy shortage, causing several other lives to end as well because they could not manufacture enough pills in such a short amount of time.
    Impetus officials remind us of this story often, emphasizing the marvel of Remedy and emphasizing that if we didn’t have Remedy to rely on, there would have been many more deaths in that situation. “Remedy would have saved lives in The Before,” they always say, “but at least we have it to save our lives today.”
    However, when I disclosed this to Gavin, he argued that the need for extra pills came from the stirrings of emotions that can sometimes still emerge in extremely unusual situations. Because, he always explains in such a damning matter, despite modern science, we are still the same species of people from The Before. “It would have been better for everyone to feel than to take all the pills. Taking excessive pills kills people; not mourning a person’s death.” If anyone in Impetus heard him say that, he would be immediately reported and punished. It’s probably a good thing that Gavin isn’t a part of my community because with the way his mind operates, he’d be banned by now.  
    The basic story of the Lightstones Legend had been shared with us for as long as I remember as a continual reminder of the importance of our rules and existence; but it was at the Clinic where I learned the details since more comprehensive history is shared specifically with students and employees of the Clinic and the Guard. They further highlight such rules like A112 which states that we have to get our Remedy pills from a Monitor Cube in order to regulate the levels of Remedy in our system and A152 which now assigns personnel to keep inventory on the amount of Remedies available in Impetus. This is also when they began to strictly enforce A066, better deemed the Curiosity Ban, which makes both the thinking and asking of what, why, when, and how questions illegal. “Of course quite reasonable since it was the boy’s unlawful curiosity that ended his life and those of some of his community members.” The instructor said, using the Lightstones Legend as a primary example.
    “You’re late. Have you been running off with your imaginary friend again?” Jacqueline whispers, her dark brown eyes were lit up, presumptuously waiting for details to be shared as I walk