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Below the is Death to School Children!"

"What is this?" I asked, blinking hard as I tried to focus,

"It’s a periodical They’re like the underground er secretive It’s hos is being spread throughout the city and beyond," Aron answered

"The irony is," Xander added, "the person responsible for this periodical is only able to distribute it because of the New Equality he or she is conde"

I folded the paper and slipped it into e it delivered or because I was proud of the changes I’d made that allowed for such a publication to exist Instead I kept it because it was the only photograph I had to remind me of Sydney

PART II

brooklynn

Brooklynn stared out in the general direction of the Capitol Not that she could see it anyed-toothed buildings hadn’t been visible for hours Instead she watched passing shadows of a countryside shrouded by the cover of night, i one iuish from the next

The floor beneath her feet rocked, and she reached for a handrail to steady herself She waited until her stoherself she would grow accusto as she’d thought it would be For her, it was the opposite, in fact She felt endlessly queasy, and she longed to stand on solid unround once more

Unfortunately, fate had different plans for her and her queen

Everything had happened so quickly after the attack on the Academy Yet it wasn’t until they’d left the school that day that they’d realized the assaults hadn’t been confined to only their location, but that nearly an entire section of the city--just barely rebuilt from the rebellions that Brook herself had been a part of--was on fire Buildings had crurily and then collapsed into piles of charred rubble

Now Brooklynn, Charlie, and Aron were on a train headed north, along with Zafir and fifty of Brook’s best soldiers They’d be arriving at the su intact