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The Eye of Aura Lumens
Seeing is believing — or is it?
Welcome to Aura Lumens — where everything is under Surveillance at all times.
You can see it in everything that happens on this planet. Cameras are everywhere. Nothing goes unnoticed for long. Celebrations and crimes alike occur for all to see whenever they want. Just tap in and go: see what you want to see, whenever, wherever.
You are an active participant at times too. You can be walking on one of the Paths, and the camera system underlying the Grid will catch you in motion. You have no choice but to adhere to it, grumbling as you do so, so certain you’re never going to see a day without your face being plastered everywhere for the Eye to see.
The Eye is great, the Eye is all-knowing, and the Eye is ever-present.
We cannot fight it, no matter how much we may want to.
Or that was how it was supposed to be.
Before the Wills got their way.
The Wills are the under-seers in this world. They see to it that the Eye functions as best it can. They are engineers, they are great minds in small bodies, they are the unknowable quantity when all is thought lost. They are the ones who can move worlds with only a thought and a few tinkers of their hands. They are truly the souls to watch —…
