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(Set in pre-canon/S1 but they find a way to fix the oxygen scrubbers and don’t need to send the kids to the ground.)
Jorja Holtmann is a seven-year-old “forbidden” second child whose existence is only discovered when her father is killed in an unfortunate engineering accident. Ark law states that second children are placed in the skybox and floated on their eighteenth birthday.
As head of the guard and member of the council, Marcus Kane has done it before, Octavia Blake being the most recent example. But this time, for some reason, he can’t find it within himself to condemn this wide-eyed, innocent child to a life of imprisonment. How far is he prepared to go to put one child’s freedom above his lifelong mission to ensure the survival of the human race?
Pretty far, as it turns out.