Prologue: Two Sides of the Same Coin
The girl wrote the words carefully into the book.
"How on earth do you live in a place like that?"
As if by magic, letters began to form themselves beneath her own. The script did not look like anything a human hand had shaped; it resembled text typed out on some electronic device.
I don't know either. You just... live somehow, I guess.
"So this is the world of adults..."
A shiver ran through her. Kivotos and The City. Alike yet utterly different, like two faces of the same coin. Everything she had been told was horrific, yet the more she learned, the more desperately she wanted to know.