Summary

Day narrates Chapter 5, beginning with a nightmare in which doctors check Eden’s progress out of blindness caused by plague experiments. Eden makes a rose out of paper while Day waits for paperwork until an alarm blares. Day looks out the window to see Colonies airships attacking San Francisco. He picks up Eden and runs, but Republic soldiers take Eden from him. An airship fires at the hospital and kills Eden.

Day awakes from his dream with a headache, safe in his temporary housing in Denver and next to a “transmission box,” or radio, tuned to a channel he suspects the Patriots might use. Eden asks if he is okay, and Day asks him to get his medicine. Day stumbles to the kitchen for water, blind from the pain. Eden follows wearing a device that beeps if he gets...