Summary

In Chapter 8, Day narrates from the first person point of view as the Dynasty lands in Lamar, Colorado. He observes the warfront city and the crumbling military buildings that “loom in front of us” (109). Kaede tells him that the Republic has been lying about the war, and that the Colonies have actually pushed much farther into the Republic than they tell the public. The pair pass a man dressed as a soldier who makes a symbolic “V” with his fingers, and the reader is given no more explanation of the event. Kaede and Day enter a secret tunnel underground.

Kaede and Day walk through the tunnel and she tells him that the Patriots are funded by the Colonies. Day tells her about his father, who he suspects worked for a resistance. Kaede talks about her life in the Colonies...