Chapter Twenty-One
Josie didn’t come to class that day. No one raised their hand to ask where she was. I don’t know if everyone else knew but me, or if all of us were drowning in the dark, trying not to look at her empty chair, too afraid to find out some new horrible part of the fate that awaited us all.
Not if I can help it. I have a plan. We can stop the Incorporation.
I wanted to scream the words, but I just kept repeating them over and over in my head instead.
We can stop the Incorporation.
I knew it wasn’t entirely true. Stopping the Incorporation would take the work of an army that didn’t exist. But stopping Project Progeny would save my peers, and that had to be enough.
They took us to the Haven Dome for afternoon lessons. Half the group worked on tying up vines while the oth
