Chapters 11-12 Summary

In Chapter 11, Lena tells a family secret, how her sister Rachel got the deliria before she was cured by falling in love with a boy named Thomas. Thomas broke her heart, but she still refused the procedure and had to be taken off kicking, screaming, and scratching. Afterward she was calm and content and married the boy she was assigned. Thomas was cured too, and assigned a wife, and everyone has forgotten the painful love.

After Lena's meeting with Alex, she worries she might be infected but sees none of the expected symptoms. Lena works extra time at the store and doesn't see Hana. She concentrates on being good. Lena has to give up running because it's too hot. The last time she runs, she goes to the Governor and checks the hand for a note, without knowing why. She finds...