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Acceptance Letter

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    Dear Miss Genesis Pierce,
    We are pleased to inform you and your family that you have been accepted to the Ellenor Diah Institution of Learning and Training.  Please gather the requires supplies enclosed in this letter and be on campus by no later than August 22nd.  
    Sincerely,
    Belle Verona
Deputy Headmistress of Ellenor Diah Institution of Learning and Training


    My mother was in tears, and my father could do nothing but look horrified at the slip of paper while he held her and tried to console her.  I had been chosen.  Only a handful of us graduating students were chosen.  But I had been chosen.  The Diah Institution was like a college, or university, a higher education, if you will.  Every year cities sent their best students to Diahs and those students would compete against the students of other cities.  At the end of their education whoever was left standing received glory and riches for honoring their city, and most of all, giving their city control of the country for the next three years.  No one applied to go to Diahs, you were chosen.  Typically, you were chosen by the mayor, or another official who had survived Diahs and taken office- because that’s just how it worked.  You proved you were the best, and you were rewarded.
    But for most…  There was no reward at the end, just death.
The Prelude to The Institution
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