Summary

In Chapter 13, Rowan has hurt her ankle and is having trouble running. She considers the help she received, including the people at the food distribution center who seemed to be moving to help her. She is at the outer edge of the city now, and she sees devastation everywhere. Buildings are demolished and craters pock the area. She sees bullet holes in walls. Rowan believes this is more than natural infrastructure collapse. She has only read about wars. She reaches the city wall and wiggles through a tunnel. She is amazed to see artificial trees, much larger than those in Eden, on the outside of the city. She cannot understand how she has never seen them, at least from the algae spire when she was with Lark. A desert begins at the end of the artificial trees and Rowan discovers the forest of...