Xitizen RC1803, you violated Zero Carbon Code Orange 2D/xi yesterday by leaving Zone Beta without permission. Your UHI allocation will therefore be reduced for the next seven days. You may submit a defence or appeal statement within twenty-four hours of receiving this transmission. Closing my device, I drew a deep breath. Like any good xitizen, I'd taken my daily vaccine shot. Then I'd set out to look at the ocean, to see one last time the place where my earliest memories were made. A fifth-generation female android at reception noted my identifier tag and the code violation reference. Steadying my nerves, I stole a backwards glance at the city street outside where medicated commuters acted out what was for them another ordinary day. 'Thank you for your cooperation. Go to level eighteen, court five. You may use the lift opposite. State your grounds for defence or appeal when called to do so by the clerk.' ...