Consent Privilege: Field Notes
Consent is the axis on which this world turns, but few admit how unevenly it’s distributed. Leora zone and Leah zone enforce the law in radically different ways—one by daylight, the other by shadow.
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Leora Zone: BITE and SSC Monitoring
In the Leora corridors, consent is policed in public. Every high-risk interaction—sex, power exchange, even deep conversation—triggers the BITE model: • Behavioral: Visible norms for how people act, enforced by peers as much as by leaders. • Information: Secrets and rumors are tracked. Consent boundaries are flagged and checked before and after each exchange. • Thought: Indoctrination, manipulation, and psychological harm are watched for. • Emotional: Everyone’s frequency is monitored for distress, dissociation, or regret.
No one here is above the law. Surveillance is peer-based, horizontal. When things go wrong, the zone calls a review: mediators intervene, survivors debrief, and harm is addressed openly. SSC—Safe, Sane, Consensual—is not a slogan, but the baseline for all relationships. A missed check-in, a boundary crossed, and the corridor acts fast. The shame is in hiding, not in making mistakes.
Some find it exhausting. Others find it freeing. Here, consent fatigue is real, but so is the knowledge that your “no” will be honored—if not by your partner, then by the corridor itself.
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Leah Zone: The Hidden Code
In the Leah compounds, rules exist in silence. Only elders, leaders, and select operatives know the full code of conduct. Everyone else gets stories: “obedience keeps us safe,” “elders know best,” “follow the rhythm.” The true laws—who may bond, who may refuse, what counts as betrayal, what must be hidden—are recited behind closed doors, changed without notice, enforced without explanation.
Ordinary Leahs are shielded by ritual but exposed to sudden punishment. A smile vanishes, a door closes, a name is left off the guest list. The system calls it harmony, but the cost is confusion and paranoia. Some never know the rules they’ve broken. Some discover the code by accident, then live forever in the crosshairs—complicit, compliant, or gone.
Operatives use the code as weapon and shield. They can protect, cover, or exile, depending on the needs of the moment and the orders of the council. The greatest fear isn’t being punished, but not knowing why.
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Kellyanna’s Log
Crossing between zones, I keep a double ledger: in Leora, my boundaries are public property. In Leah, my survival depends on guessing what I’m allowed to want. I envy the ones who grew up knowing how the code works—even when it hurts, at least you know what’s coming.
Some days, I dream of a world where consent is both seen and felt—honored in private, defended in public, taught as a birthright, not a privilege or a code. Until then, I keep notes, mark patterns, and try not to cross without a map.
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