Chapter 58

Of everything that needed to be done before we left, that one terrified me the most.

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There in the shadow of the monorail track, pressed against the wall, Kyer and I made plans to leave the Colony. I kept glancing over his shoulder at the screen on the platform above, and every time I saw its blank, blind eye, I lowered my voice even further. It’d do us no good if everyone knew what it was we planned to do. Until the time was right to make a run for it, we would have to keep our thoughts and dreams, our hopes and plans, everything silently locked away inside us. “They’ll catch us if they find out,” Kyer cautioned.

“They’ll take us to the Health Center,” I told him, remembering Brin’s story about her mother. “They’ll inject our pills directly into our blood so we’d go back to being who they wanted us to be.”

“Or they might just give us the black pill and be done with it,” Kyer said with a shudder.