1.a) the quality or state of being apart from company or observation 1.b) freedom from unauthorised intrusion 2) secrecy 3) a place of seclusion — Merriam-Webster dictionary

The Spectral Children
London, 2033

new towers mark the skyline
glass facades flashing code
to the central watcher
a holographic web
of risk and trade
woven through the data cloud
of radioactive smog
that chokes those overlooked
by the optical revolution
far below, in the nether city
in the pavlovian underbelly
familiar patters repeat ad infinitum

except… look:
Ma Nu is moving home
in an anarchic break
from the everyday drone

— Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel, excerpt from the inter titles of  Faceless: The Spectral Children, 2006