The TestingIt's graduation day for sixteen year old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think aboutor hope foris whether she'll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth programme that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalising post war civilisation. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half