He allows Citra’s mother to kiss his ring as payment for the dinner he consumed, giving her immunity from gleaning for one year. Faraday admits he is not there to glean any of them, but their neighbor. Only Citra has the courage to demand Faraday does it or leave once dinner has been eaten. She and her family are terrified at the thought that one of them might be gleaned. They are supposed to live outside of normal human interaction in order to remain anonymous and relatively free of biases that could influence the people they choose to kill.Ĭitra, a teenager, is shocked when Scythe Faraday arrives unannounced to her family’s apartment and invites himself to dinner. The Thunderhead does not interfere with their work, nor are they allowed to access its data in order to manipulate who gets gleaned.Įach scythe takes the name of a historical figure. A selected group of men and women, known as scythes, are allowed kill individuals in order to keep the planet from overpopulation. The only way a person can die now is by being gleaned. Nanites can heal any damage to human bodies, even aging. Over the years and with the help of the Thunderhead’s abilities, humankind eliminated disease, war, famine and even death. In the year 2042, the technological cloud evolved into an entity called “the Thunderhead,” a sentient conglomeration of all the information ever put into computers.
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