Chapters 19 and 20 Summary

Chapter 19 - Connie and Sybil again start talking about escape, but this time Connie will provide the distraction and Sybil will, in the plan, go free. As they develop their plan, Sybil becomes concerned about the hard anger she sees in Connie's eyes, but Connie refuses to tell her what she has planned, saying only that she's fighting a war. The night before the escape attempt, Connie lies awake and manages one last contact with Luciente and the others, discovering that the battle she believed she fought in (Chapter 17) never actually happened, but according to Luciente may have happened in another continuum or as the result of the device planted in Connie's brain. Conversation reveals that the Shaping controversy is continuing, that Hawk (Innocente) has decided to join a touring group of performers, and that Luciente is gradually getting over her...