Liberty 5-3000 / Gaea
Liberty is a seventeen-year-old Peasant assigned to work in the fields.
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Spoiler-freeLiberty is a seventeen-year-old Peasant assigned to work in the fields. She responds to Equality’s attention and privately names him the Unconquered. Her motivation is personal devotion and a refusal to live without the man she has chosen. She follows him into the forest, discovers the word “I,” takes the name Gaea, and is pregnant at the end.
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