Summary

In Chapter 4, the Patriot’s medic enters the apartment late at night and preps Day for surgery with Tess’s help. He talks to June about the Elector and worries that she does not and cannot love him. He reverses his thinking before going unconscious.

Day dreams about John, his now deceased older brother. He helps John read by candlelight and work through difficult words. A military patrol with June at the lead bursts into the house and shoots John, then Day’s mother. His dream shifts to in the Los Angeles Central Hospital, where he undergoes painful procedures. He escapes and discovers June waiting for him. They walk through the streets where every door is marked with a red X, indicating the plague. He walks back to his house and finds it empty except for Eden, whose eyes...