Chapter Twenty-Six
Into the City
She didn’t exactly have a plan. She wanted to reach Arturo, but she couldn’t see the steps that would get her to him. The city was huge; there was no way to find him by just sneaking about. She’d listened to enough revolutionary tales of life in the city to know teenagers weren’t supposed to be out unaccompanied after sundown and that the patrol officers with nightsticks and flashlights had a strict hit-first, never-listen-to-explanations policy. If kids who had grown up in the city couldn’t effectively evade capture, she stood little chance.
The only way she could see to get to Arturo was through her father. She knew where he worked. If she got to him and told him about the invasion planned for the morning, perhaps she could save some lives. He might be
