The 100: His Sight Counts Lives

A hundred delinquents are dropped on a planet that kills the careless within hours. One of them sees a small flame for every living person in range. The Watchfire is a field of flames laid over ordinary sight, and it values the kept count over the heroic save — the nine held quietly lit until dawn, never the one pulled out of the fire. It issues Watches: imperatives with a count and a clock. Close them and he rises. Fail one and the next is narrower. Jonah Vasco was a numbered nobody in that mob. The system does not make him strong. It makes him responsible. It will render a martyr’s flame beside the nine that martyrdom costs, without comment, and let him do the arithmetic himself. Beneath the Watch is a redacted line. When it fills, the ground corrects at scale. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The 100: His Sight Counts Lives — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠