Reece

### Early Years

Reece grew up on a very low level of blue Zone, 510/6120 area. When he went to teen level he tried to convince everyone n his corridor group that he was born in one of the upper level, but only a few of the other teens believed him.

He was always playing mean spirited practical jokes on the other teens and during the great Blue Zone Power Cut he played a cruel trick, jumping out of the dark wearing his Halloween costume and trying to scare the other teens. He caused one of the girls to runaway in the dark and she fell down a flight of stairs and her leg was seriously injured..

Amber and Forge learn in Adversary that Reece followed the other member of their corridor group when they went to their parents apartments to learn what level they were from and all about their families.

### Lottery 2532

Level 93 Pipe Technician, assigned to area 510/6120, Blue Zone.

After he came out of lottery he was assigned to a new therapist who just spent one session with him, mostly just staring at him before he announced that more therapy wouldn't do him any good. He also told Reece that the next time he harmed anyone, the therapist would assign him to scrubbing slime vats for weeks and then had a couple of hasties take him away and lock him up in an empty slim vat for an hour. Reece decided causing harm wouldn't be worth the punishment and has been behaving himself.

### Responsibilities

He works lower down the hive, usually on level 100, managing the robots that do the pipe cleaning. He always wanted to be surrounded by a bunch of people that adored him and would do what ever he wanted, but because he was such a repellent person it would never happen. But the Hive's lottery figured out a way for him to be blissfully happy by assigning him manage a group of robots that do the actual pipe cleaning. The robots immediately do everything that he commands and he finds that deeply satisfying.

## Summary

### Perilous

During Perilous, Reece is a member of Amber's corridor group and a bully. He managed to alienate all of the other teens in his corridor and was excluded from joining in on the activities that they organized for them selves.

He first taunts Amber for becoming scared while climbing a cliff at the teen level beach, causing her to become even more scarred and finishing the climb with her eyes closed. Which resulted in her bumping her head against a light that was embedded in the ceiling.

Then later when all of Blue Zone loses it's power leaving everyone in the dark and trying to get organized to go down to the park, Reece sneaks off to his room and puts on his Halloween costume as the hunter of souls. He jumps out at everyone and scares them, Lynette runs away in the dark and falls down a flight of stairs, badly injuring her leg.

Because he caused a serious accident he was obligated to take mandatory therapy seasons for his last year on teen level.

### Adversary

Soon after the New Year passed Amber, Reece shows up on level 27 festivities looking for her. He wants her to help him with a work related problem and he figured since she was level one his supervisors would listen to her. When Amber saw Reece she reacted with fright which alerted her body guards and they drew their stun guns on him. Forge snuck around behind him and tied him up. They then took him away to another area so that a telepath squad could join them and Amber could read his mind.

Reece was concerned about his pipe cleaning robots acting up and disobeying orders working in a specific area of level 100. When he reported it to his supervisor she was unconcerned and did nothing about it. Reece was truly happy in his assigned work and though of his robots as people who he showed true compassion and concern toward.

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Perilous (Hive Mind 0.5)
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 20). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Perilous (Hive Mind 0.5)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
* Edwards, Janet. *Adversary (Hive Mind 5)* (2023). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition