We walked to Tumultus after that. I wrung my hands the entire way there, thinking about what Thane had said. Starting a revolution - did that mean destroying Incipio? Could I do that? Incipio was the only place I'd ever known as home, despite the laws that Nero Randall enforced brutally twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. My younger sister and my parents lived there. Kalle, Elen, and Cas lived there, too. The Academy for Fourth-Level Programming and Operation had once been my goal. And now . . . I wasn't sure if I would be able to leave it. We descended the path at the edge of the cavern and crossed the boundaries of Tumultus. Almost immediately, a tall, dark-skinned man with jet-black hair and black clothes approached Thane, greeting him. "Hey, Flynn, nice of you to show up,"

