You asked me for my story. It's dark, I'll promise you that. There's a reason they made me an Avox. I'm a traitor. I've betrayed my own country, and challenged its ways. They made me speechless not only to punish me but to make sure my ideas could not be heard. They were scared, you see, that if I made my thoughts heard it could cause others to adopt them as well. They were afraid they would have a whole uprising on their hands. So they shut me up. Sent me to a district far from my own.