Introductions to Characters - two people in my Nanobook

written while I was waiting for the clock to tick over to midnight on hallowe'en

The government people showed up a week after the test.

Noth wasn't expecting them. He'd done the test, done what his uncle always said and done his best, but he'd been doing that for years and nothing had changed. Nobody wanted him or his brothers for anything better than the trade school they were already enrolled in. Nothing was going to change. The tests were a pretty stupid formality.
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