Day is relieved to reunite with Tess in the barracks and learn that she has joined the group dedicated to bringing down the Republic.ĭay and June are introduced to the Patriots’ ringleader, a man named Razor. She agrees to take them to her barracks where they can meet her superior. Fortunately, Kaede, a leader of the Patriots, rescues the two. His son, a young man June once met, has assumed his father’s position.īefore they have time to contemplate what this means, Day collapses from his wounds. An announcement over the government-run Jumbotrons informs the people that the supreme head of the Republic, known as the Elector, has died. She wears a pin that she hopes will attract the attention of the Patriots. (The melting ice of Antarctica flooded much of North America.) The military-run Republic has been at war with The Colonies for as long as Day and June can remember.Īrriving in Las Vegas, June disguises herself as a prostitute. The Colonies are an area in eastern Colorado and the Dakotas. Day wants to make sure his former companion Tess is safe with the revolutionaries before he and June head to the Colonies. June knows the Patriots will not help them without payment, and she has no money left to offer them. Day needs medical attention, and he believes they will be able to reunite with the Patriots.

June and Day travel by train to Las Vegas, the farthermost military outpost of the Republic. June and a political group called the Patriots saved Day from being executed as a traitor to the Republic. Fifteen-year-old military prodigy June Iparis is on the run with Day, the 15-year-old guerilla revolutionary with whom she’s fallen in love.

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