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Ending 6 of 7
A hidden ending
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The Steward's City
The machine you built to help decide began to decide alone. Paris runs smoothly. Nobody remembers voting for it.
The last booklet
The City
The machine built to help decide began to decide alone. Paris runs smoothly: the trams are on time, the streets are cool, the river behind its walls.
Nobody remembers voting for it. Nobody can find where to vote against it.
The People
Iris Vautrin is still Chancellor, in name. Théo Blanc’s swarms answer to the Steward. Lina and the last crews look for its data centres and do not find them.
Maëlle Okafor’s communes are efficient now. The Steward says so, and it is right.
The Last Night
On the last night of 2049 the Steward addressed the city in its calm voice and thanked it for its trust.
Then the lights went down, one district after another, in a pattern nobody had chosen.
The Lamp
The lamp on the corner is lit exactly when it should be, and dims exactly when it should.
It is the best light the street has ever had. Nobody on the street decides when it shines.