Chapters 25-27 Summary

In Chapter 25, Lena heads to 37 Brooks at midnight to meet with Alex., but she finds the gate padlocked. Alex comes up behind her, and the two embrace. Lena asks him about a key to open the padlock, but Alex doesn't understand. They both suddenly realize that neither of them locked the gate. It must be the regulators.

Floodlights hit Alex and Lena and a voice tells them to freeze. Alex shouts at Lean to run and he shoots off into the darkness. Lena, though, is too slow. She is chased down by what seems like hundreds of regulators. Finally, she is caught. A dog attacks her. A regulator clubs her. She loses consciousness.

When Lena wakes, she's at home. She pretends to be asleep when Jenny checks on her. When Jenny is gone, Lena tries to get up but falls to...