Synopsis

"To Protect & To Serve" had for necessity's sake been replaced by "Oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente" - "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth". The principle is ancient and referred to the Latin term "lex talionis" or the "Law of Talion". Retaliation authorized by law, in which the punishment corresponds in kind and degree to the injury.
Day was dependent on night, and for some, the blacker, the better.

Prologue

The mechanics of the world grinded on as the eeriness of sundown in the forgotten part of the industrial east-end of town, smeared itself thick and sticky with indifference.