Had he lived criminally? Had Osha and he and his parents and all his acquaintances lived criminally? They had followed the laws, it was true; but that wasn’t really the point – they had written the laws. But even that wasn’t really the point. They were the authors of the Urbanosphere … The cold gnawed at his legs and numbed his fingers. The mean god of frost whipped Jude’s lips, spat parcels of sand into his eyes, across his cheeks. Jude had inherited the Earth: the clean, sterilised, sterile, underground earth. They had each inherited the Urbanosphere and the Last Beautiful Republic. But nobody questioned anything! Only a handful did, and they were arrested as subversives; the remaining civilised human beings didn’t even question that …