Summary

In Chapter 49, Emmeline and David run across the compound and cross through the Social Update center. She and David decide to set the stage on fire to create a diversion. They return to the Children’s Village to get the torch and the other little boy that Emmeline had been taking care of. They quickly get to the hole in the fence. Elsa begins to cry and Emmeline places her finger in her daughter's mouth to calm her.

Everybody moves through the hole but David, and Emmeline is scared he won’t follow. She turns to leave, ready to fulfill her promise of leaving with or without David, but David follows. Emmeline worries that the fire will spread to the Children’s Village, but David reassures her that it will go to the Authority supply building instead. They disappear into the unknown as the...