Book 2: Alix Rothschild, Part Six: Chapters 59 - 63 Summary

Marina Shchelokov is fairly bursting with pride as she runs the one-kilometer section that is her part of the relay with the Olympic flame from Mount Olympus. It has already traveled for miles, and even though it rains without respite, and the soldiers who line the roadways laugh and made cynical jokes as she runs the difficult uphill section, when Marina sees her family and her friends watching her, her feet grow wings. Fifteen years old, she can hardly believe what she is doing. Her heart swells with emotion as she reaches the apex of the last hill just as she trips and falls. Marina's knee just gives out, forcing her to perform an impromptu somersault. Landing hard in the mud, eyes stinging with tears that were tears of pride just...