Summary

Chapter 20 begins with Day watching June come in and out of sleep in the Colonies hospital, which the reader learns is in a city called Tribune. He thinks about her grief over Metias and compares it to his own. He watches the television monitor in the hospital room which shows warfront news interspersed with commercials. A soldier, whom Day identifies as the one who recognized him, comes into the room and bows to him. She offers him another room, sponsored by DesCon Corp, but Day and the reader are unsure what DesCon Corp is. She tells Day about his celebrity status in the Colonies, but he is distracted by thoughts of John. She goes on to tell him about the flooding that created the division between the eastern and western United States, the creation of the...