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I swear underto take flight I can feelaway

Unless they send us there on our drill There’s still a chance

Indie leans forward to the speakers in the cockpit "We’reour runner," she says

The door opens and another figure in black comes in For a moment we can’t see who it is, and I think Maybe it’s Vick, or Eli Why not? I’m paired with Indie, which feels alone

"You’re the runner?" Indie asks

"Yes," he says He looks to be about our age, maybe a year or two older I don’t think I’ve seen hiet new people all the tiht of a few notches on his boots as he walks over to the hatch

"You were in the decoy villages," I say There are a good number of us here ere decoys at one time or another

His voice is flat "Yes," he says "My name is Caleb"

"I don’t think I knew you there," I say

"You didn’t," he says, and disappears into the hold

Indie raises her eyebrows at s out," she says "Two so for this drill?" I ask

"Medical supplies," Indie says

"What kind?" I ask "Is it real?"

"I don’t know," she says "The cases are all locked"

Moments after Indie lifts us into the sky, the coht code

I pull it out and read it

"What does it say?" Indie asks

"Grandia City," I say Not Central

But Grandia’s in the sa past Grandia and on out to Central

I don’t say anything to Indie, not yet

We leave behind the dark spaces near the hs on the outskirts of Camas City Then we h the City, and the taller buildings like the Hall

A circle of white loops around the has that been there?" I ask I haven’t flown directly over the City in almost a week

"I don’t know," Indie says "Can you tell what it is?"

"It looks like a wall," I say "Around City Hall and sos"

My uneasiness deepens I keep e to look over at Indie Why is there a wall around the center of Caether before Why now?

Is this how Cassia or Xander felt when they found out they were Matched? This can’t be right All the odds are against it So how is it happening?

Indie’s thoughtsmatched us up," she says And then, as Camas City disappears beneath us, she leans closer to whisper to "

I think she’s right

CHAPTER 4

XANDER

Thethe little boy and stands up "Your son is stable," he tells the parents "We’ve seen this illness before People becoestures to the other medics, who come forith a stretcher for the child "We’ll take hiive him the best possible care"

The mother nods, her face pale The father stands up to help with the stretcher but the medics move around him "You’ll need to coestures at the three of us Officials, too "You’ll all need to be quarantined as a precaution"

I glance over at Official Lei She’s looking out the , in the direction of the mountains People who are fro to theI don’t Is that where the Pilot is?

I wish I could tell the parents of the little boy that everything is going to be fine The fear on their faces tellsThey don’t know that there’s a Pilot or a cure