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"You know your sister," Fen says, grinning atto eat that first day, she headed straight for the teood we did," Bay says, "because we ht"

No wonder she looks exhausted, if she works all day and then coods would forgive you if you ain "We don’t just coods," he says "We come to show the people of the Above that we’re like anyone else"

Fen starts coughing again, harder this ti The air up here is still not clean, but he seelance over at Bay, at her tired eyes and her short hair, and I wonder if she cut it off because she couldn’t braid it without me, or if she cut it off so she wouldn’t have to re to do with me

"Please," she says to Fen "Put it on"

I realize that she means the mask, which he holds at his side

"I feel like I can’t breathe at all when I’"

"But it does help," she says "Even if you can’t tell It buys you time"

"We’re not sure of that," Fen says But he puts on thethis?"

"No," Fen says, his voice sounding like h theI had it before I ca, but I’d be in trouble anyway The mask helps me breathe"

My heart sinks forhave you known?" True asks, looking as stunned as I feel

"I figured it out a few months before the celebration of the Divide," Fen says "I could feel it happening"

"You didn’t tell me," True says

"I didn’t tell anyone They sell stuff in the deep so that no one will know It’s not good for you, but I didn’t care If I was going to die anyhat did it ht races, to keep s And that’s where IAbove, I decided to come with her"

"We’ve learned since that there are doctors here whopeople’s lungs with all these years of pollution--but no one aste any tiht," Fen says "We didn’t know that e came I just hoped to be with you and see the Above before I died" He shts up as hot and bright as the sun in an instant She loves his he says and fro

But she didn’t tell ht she had to protect ainst rocks Anger ater at the people Beloant to contain the sirens and the people Above ant to kill thereedy people who brought us to the point where the only way to survive was to Divide Those people used up everything They wasted the trees; they burned through the air They didn’t care, or if they did, they didn’t care enough, and noe’re the ones paying the price of their extravagance