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Rank Two
A story from The The Program Universe
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25 scenes · 3 endings
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Scenes 25
Endings 3
Universe The The Program Universe
Tamsin
Deacon
Rab
Halvard
Deacon Hoyle has been rank two for two years and he can tell you the exact number of people who have watched him lose. He has decided that the problem is not the losing but the venue, and he has spent a month working out which behaviour in the yard is worth the most to a clerk. On Friday he is going to do it in front of the whole school. The only thing he has not worked out is what it costs the person helping him.
The ranking is the engine that puts three people in a room and takes their clothes off to prove something.
Chapters
1
Second
Deacon Hoyle is rank two. Rank two is a dormitory with a radiator, no blinds, and a number that everybody i...
2
The Appendix
The schedule at the back of the regulations gives a number to each behaviour, and it is written by somebody...
3
The Venue
The yard is the only place on the near bank that all four Tower windows can see, and it is lit until midnig...
4
What He Wants
He works out on a bag in a room with no window and he does not stop talking while he does it, which is the ...
5
The Ask
It would have to be counted as the gravest thing that has ever happened in that yard, and it would have to ...
6
This Is the Venue
He takes me down to the yard in the middle of the afternoon and stands in the middle of it and puts his arm...
7
Halvard Says No
Halvard is at the edge of the yard the whole time and hears every word, and when Deacon is finished he walk...
8
Not Coerced
Then how does a person prove they were not coerced?
9
Four Notebooks
I stand on the bank at dusk and look up at the Tower, and one notebook is open on a sill with a line of han...
10
The Form
The form takes him three nights. He writes the substance and Rab writes the language, and the two of them s...
11
What It Says
On Thursday he reads it to me out loud, once, in a room with the door open, and it takes four minutes, and ...
12
Three Nights
On the third night I go down at midnight and he is standing in the middle of the room with the form on the ...
13
Thursday
Thursday night he does not go back to his room, and neither do I, and nobody signs anything, and it is the ...
14
Because It Has Never Been
Afterwards he lies on his back with his forearm over his eyes and says the thing he has been not saying sin...
15
Friday, Half Past Four
The yard is full by four. Somebody has chalked a rough square on the concrete and nobody knows who, and eve...
16
The Square
We stand in a chalked square in a floodlit yard in front of the whole school, and Deacon takes the form out...
17
The Yard Watches
What happens in the square takes eleven minutes and there are four hundred people standing in silence and n...
18
Signed
Afterwards there is a bad ten minutes where everybody is still standing there and nobody knows whether to l...
19
Rab Has an Opinion
Rab has not spoken since the square. He says what he has to say in Deacon's room afterwards with the door s...
20
Six O'Clock
At six the clerk comes down with the cloth and the chalk and the school stands in front of the wall, and th...
21
What Rank One Is Worth
Rank one is a room with a blind and a stipend and a number nobody says to your face, and he stands in front...
22
Ending — The Number
He keeps it. He keeps it for eleven Fridays, which is longer than anybody expected, and he fights nobody an...
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23
Ending — The Precedent
He files the form itself as a report: the writing of it, the three nights, the yard, the countersigning. It...
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24
Ending — The Handover
He refuses the rise in front of the wall, flatly, on the grounds that the report was his and the argument w...
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