Crucial Conflict Swell Up ~upd~ «CONFIRMED»

It was between the person she had been yesterday and the person the swell was forcing her to become.

The room was silent. Then, the conflict swelled. crucial conflict swell up

It started in the subterranean sump-pipes beneath the Upper Tier. For centuries, the wealthy elite had drained their excess—waste, runoff, and the faintly glowing chemical byproduct of their pleasure-gardens—down into the Lower Warrens. The Warrens’ people, a resourceful and silent majority, had learned to filter the poison, to live with the constant hum of the pumps, and to trade their health for survival. It was between the person she had been