The Divinity Bureau by Tessa Clare

Author:Tessa Clare [Clare, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Asset Creative House
Published: 2017-09-20T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

ROMAN

I ’m greeted by a swarm of reporters as soon as I get to work that morning.

“Sir, do you work for the Divinity Bureau?”

“Do you have a comment?”

“Why do you think the bureau has decided to elect five thousand underage candidates?”

“My daughter was elected, you fucking prick!”

I keep walking. I’m not allowed to speak on behalf of the bureau, and I have no desire to. Michael, the security guard at the door, gives me a sympathetic glance. I tell myself that the chaos would die down as soon as I get inside.

“Excuse me,” someone brushing past me says.

I frown. The voice belongs to a dark-haired man wearing a freshly pressed suit. I’m certain I’ve seen him before. But before I have the chance to dwell on it, I’m passed by another man in a suit. And another.

Something is off. As I make my way to my desk, I see a plethora of unfamiliar faces. While I don’t know everyone that works in the bureau’s headquarters, I know enough to realize that something is going on. My suspicions are confirmed when I walk past Finn’s office and find a stern-faced man occupying the otherwise-empty side of the room.

I turn the opposite direction, thinking that I might be best finding answers in the breakroom. When I see a fresh-faced group of staffers standing near a vending machine, I decide to ask them. A low-level employee like me will never be able to get answers directly from a district chairperson, but I can still count on the old-fashioned way: gossip.

“Hey,” I greet, stepping into their conversation. “Do you know what’s with all the guys in suits?”

“Roman!” a girl exclaims, her eyes growing wide. I think her name is Amy? “I thought you were dead! I made you a ticket last week, but you never got back to me!””

“Sorry,” I say immediately. I’ve been neglecting my work in the last few weeks. “I, err, had a family emergency.”

“Did someone in your family get elected?” a blonde-haired boy named David chimes.

“Something like that,” I say vaguely. “Anyways, do any of you know what’s going on? I think Theo Rodgers is in town. He’s a district chairman that supposedly shares an office with Finn, but he’s never in town unless something major is going on.”

“Oh, something major is going on,” says Amy. “The whole bureau is having a summit here – all five hundred and sixty districts. They flew everyone out and everything.”

I stare at her in shock. “Why… why would they do that?”

The Divinity Bureau’s central office is in District 1, which is where the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches are. Wouldn’t they fly them out there instead? I don’t think the Midwest District’s Headquarters can even house 560 chair people and their staffers!

“Gideon called it,” says Amy. “Apparently, he did some calculations and found that our overpopulation problem is worse than they’ve let on. They’re holding a big summit to address the issue.”

“Calculations?” I ask, appalled. The man can barely use a computer!

“I heard that the Western districts are opposed to changing anything,” David asserts.

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