meadowlark | @kate.bishop

hey guys. clarke and i have been trying to figure out more about the una soldiers. where they come from, who recruits them, that sort of thing.

so, a couple of things. it seems like most of recruits are young. 16 at the youngest, and never any older than mid twenties. a lot of them are also poor. the una apparently focuses their recruitment efforts on lower income parts of the city, trying to rope in kids who might not have much of a family or a place to live. clarke also found out that a lot of the kids were the kind whose families were given retroactive approval for a pregnancy, or whose families had serious issues with addiction or illness.

i've been working at a coffee shop, and as you can probably guess, our clientele is very rich. as you can also probably guess, most of our customers don't seem to know of anyone who was recruited by the una, unless those recruits did really, really well and rocketed up in social status. so, super predatory and super gross. most of those kids probably felt like they didn't have any other choice. i don't know where that leaves any of us, but i think it's important to keep in mind.