Summary

Part 1, Chapter 1

While sleeping, Faith Daniels is unaware that things are moving around her room. Her blanket covers her foot. The door to the hallway closes. Faith’s standard issue Tablet turns on, examining perhaps by some kind of phantom. The next day, she walks to school at Old Park Hill through rubble and ruins that had once been an open-air mall. In 2051, nearly everything done is done digitally. Faith purchases several shows on her Tablet, goes over her schedule, and sends a note to her mom. But real purchases, like jeans and t-shirts, are very expensive, and it is rare to buy those.

Faith doesn’t care about the two States where a hundred million people live, or that people will not be coming back to the area in which she and others live. Faith also doesn’t care...