My life here is everything but what it was in N. There is no system that I log on every day, no reports have to be written, no messages sent, no body immunity checked-up and there's no talk about work. The bed made me calmer even though the cleanliness of the sheets could be discussed. I changed my clothes. The ones that I...

Gemma entered the train and came back to N. There was nothing for her in K. to make her stay. No fondness, no love, no attachment. When she came for yet another time she was different. Weeks spent in her sky-scraper building, different scents, other flavors, so many experiences. And when she saw Adam for the last time, he wasn't the same man...

Adam was waiting with anticipation inside the shed. He had fed the mice they were keeping in wooden cages and watched them eat. He observed as they were playing with each other and how their numbers were gradually increasing. He had already built another cage to store the young ones with the mothers. Gemma asked him to do this and he very carefully...

This was literally a dream come true. The old man had finally accepted. Of course, they had been hearing those rumors. Apparently, one man tried to introduce a form of civilization in K. and he was the first to do so in many, many years. Of course, there were some proponents and opponents of the whole situation. And there were those who didn't...

It raised some interest when Gemma entered one of the biggest buildings in the center of N. and applied for a job. People were surprised mainly because she was too young to even start considering her career. It was one of those glass modern skyscrapers with transparent walls, black and white furniture, endless elevators, spacious terraces with a view over the panorama of...

Melquiades wasn't even angry. It was difficult to overcome the state of shock that was created in his mind when he got to know the truth. The system was to him clear as never before. All the fields within the borders of K. were able to keep alive approximately 200 hundred million people. Any surplus meant hunger and malnutrition of others, by cutting...