Meet the OC: Deja Fu

…the police are the crime…

Dead drops and drunk tanks. A door left unlocked. A hole in the guard patrol schedule. An undersecured door, a familiar password, a moment of forgetfulness, or believable forgetfulness. In Praetoria, you could get a lot done by leaning on the way that everyone thought everyone else was corrupt.

Deja was one of them. The Secret police, that is. The term they use is ‘found family’ – when you dig out a collection of people who make the world make some sense. It wasn’t even her name, at first – it was her task force, for finding infiltrators. She was so good at it, they made her – well, Latrice Delain – commander.

Weird she never found herself.

The revolution is over, Praetoria is in ruins, but the work goes on. Like drifting spores, the corruption of the PPD hides in secret places, in filing cabinets and accountancy. That needs to be dealt with. And that needs a new name.

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