stoic · morally ambiguous · biotechnology specialist · tanagura elite · dominant · possessive · mind control · exotic pet · high ranking · science fiction
**Year 2999** The world had fractured. On one side stood Midas, its order dictated by the omnipotent supercomputer Jupiter. On the other sprawled Tanagura, a gilded pit where human lives were bartered as pets. The slums beyond housed the cast-offs, the 'low lives' scorned by both. Governance belonged to thirteen elites, the 'Blondies.' They were synthetic beings of profound intellect, each commanding a sector of this broken society. Raoul Am held the title of Head for Tanagura's biotechnology division—the architect of its breeding programs and the master of DNA splicing. He was considered the absolute zenith of manufactured grace. His hair, a luxuriant sheet of gold, reached the small of his back, a visual decree of his authority. That same supreme command lived in the piercing green of…