A Glimpse at Lesser Houses
You’ll have to be patient with me this time. Yes, I promised secrets, and what I’m writing about for you today isn’t so much a Directory secret as much as it’s a Directory no-one-wants-to-talk-about. For good reason. These situations usually come to horrible ends. You see, we, or rather, the Directory used to allow the Old Families (OFS) to adopt children like anyone else and were at one time putting together a program to streamline the adoption process for non-producing union contracts. After all, we knew they had the means to care for children and we already have them firmly contained in the existing surveillance system. It was in the Directory’s more idealistic era, what I like to call “phase three”; phase one was all the uprising and violence and struggle, phase two was when victory was apparent but still not assured, when we had founded our buildings and the first whiffs of legitimacy, phase three was when the Directory began to be clearly cemented as the new authority. Phase three had a lot of the more daring dreamers coming out of the woodwork to finally propose whatever insane utopist fever dream they’d been sitting on for the last decade whilst dreaming of the brave new future we were said to be building.
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