Part 1, Turning Pretty: Chapters 6-10 Summary

As they are riding their hoverboards on the outskirts of the city, Shay suggests that they go out to the Rusty Ruins that night. Tally questions the wisdom of breaking such an important rule, but finally agrees.

Tally leaves her interface ring in her dorm room and sneaks out to meet Shay. They ride their hoverboards over the river and come across some rapids. Tally finds it exciting to ride the rapids on the hoverboard. At the end of the rapids, they turn and look down on the city. It is a beautiful sight. When they leave the river, they are forced to carry their hoverboards because they work on magnets, but there is no metal in the ground here.

Shay and Tally move into the Rusty Ruins, the ruins of a city that once...