Where the Eagle Once Flew

In the United States of 2084, the Constitution still guarantees equal rights. The state decides who is equal. That decision belongs to the Division of Equality, which stands above every court, every governor and every word of the law. In the small hours of a January night in Chicago, where the power plants have gone dark and only the Stream still lights the streets, Caleb Smith is taken with a single sheet of paper on him. He is a Fair Share courier, a quiet young man the state has never had reason to notice. But for months he has slipped out in the sleeping hours, leaving his Companion on its cradle, to sit in the freight tunnels beneath the city with a handful of ordinary people who keep a forbidden memory alive: a country that once belonged to its states and its citizens.