CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR TOBIASI CHECK THE screens before I go to meet Amar and George. Evelyn is holed up in Erudite headquarters with her factionless supporters, leaning over a map of the city. Marcus and Johanna are in a building on Michigan Avenue, north of the Hancock building, conducting a meeting. I hope that’s where they both are in a few hours when I decide which of my parents to reset. Amar gave us a little over an hour to find and inoculate Uriah’s family and get back to the compound unnoticed, so I only have time for one of them. Snow swirls over the pavement outside, floating on the wind. George offers me a g*n. “It’s dangerous in there right now,” he says. “With all that Allegiant stuff going on.” I take the g*n without even looking at it. “You are all familiar with the plan?

