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practiced regularly with his 9mm – though he had never used it on the job. He was not especially tall, but people seemed to think of him as taller than he actually was.
    His darker, equally stunning wife was making dinner when Themis walked in. "Hi James, how was work? Oh before I forget, we got our security contract today, I left it up on the screen for you to look at and sign."
    Officer – James – Themis kissed his wife hello, "Anything different this year?"
    "Just that Atlas Protection is taking care of more in the gaps between CCS's coverage. They’ll be carrying out some patrols, nothing that really affects us."
    "Somebody is doing things right, I feel like everyone's flocking to AP these days."
    "Well they have a great product, I would feel better about traveling further north now, not that I would've worried much before, but you never know! Oh, can you pick up the kids tomorrow from school? I need to stay there late, I’m tutoring after school now on Tuesdays."
    Themis’s wife was a teacher at Three Rivers Elementary School. It was one of many schools in the area, and was a branch of Three Rivers Education Group which operated an elementary school, a high school, a trade school, and a daycare/after school care.
    "That’s fine. Are you still tutoring on Thursdays?"
    "Yeah, but it’s a different group of kids. The Charity Club raised money last semester to hire tutors for some of the kids who get their tuition through grants. Most of them are doing fine, but I’d say about a quarter just don’t seem to be able to keep up with the rest of the kids at school. We noticed about 12 of them falling behind, and of course their scholarships are at risk if they don’t maintain their grades. Good kids though, just their parents don’t have the skills to teach them outside of school what most of the suburban kids get. Some are only second generation in the New England Economy."
    "That’s interesting," James said, thinking, "Do you have any first generation students?"
    "Yea I actually have one this year who came with her parents three years ago from far east Asia, where the New England Economy hasn’t spread yet, but she is a great student. She just gets confused with cultural things; certain lessons, the language, the date. Where she is from they didn’t keep the old calendar after the collapse. So their year is, I think… 53? 54 maybe. Based on some 'King’s' birth," she made quotation marks with her fingers as she said the word king.
    "Wow. So you notice more of the kids who grew up in New England, but had parents who came into NEE late that have more trouble?" asked James.
    "Well not all of them, but a lot yes, I think because their parents aren’t fully integrated, so they aren’t getting all the same home life as third or fourth generation students. Well not that their home life is bad… just they don’t have the same roots in the culture. We’re actually already starting to see fifth generation kids in the younger age groups. One boy, he’s only six, his great great grandfather was born inside the walls of the Worcester Food Corp in 2024. And his great great grandfather's parents had been admitted because the father’s dad knew a lot about electrics, plumbing, and keeping things running, even though he was a janitor before the collapse. It’s really interesting to hear some of the stories, I love teaching the history of New England. We’re so close to it, that everyone has some connection to the development."
    "That’s for sure," James agreed, then smirked slyly, "But it’s not every day you meet a family that’s 100% descendants of the Blackstone Valley settlement founders," and he puffed out his chest and bobbed his head from side to side with his eyebrows raised, sarcastically putting on an air of superiority. His wife just laughed, rolled her eyes, and shook her head as she finished setting the table, and turned to check on dinner.

 
     
     
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    It was Thursday at