![]() ![]() However, when they are attacked by scavengers and are almost annihilated, Tack and Hunter show up to save them and the entire camp manages to get to safety. Their journey grows worse as they realize their last supply of food has not been planted by Tack and Hunter meaning that both are probably they dead. ![]() As a result, Raven's adoptive daughter, Blue, becomes ill and though they try everything to save her, she dies. Their homestead is destroyed along with several of their people missing, and presumably dead, as they have to begin their journey earlier than planned with less supplies than they planned. They only learn later that these bombings occurred as a retaliation for the Incidents a series of lethal bombings by the resistance in verified communities. She finds the bird feathers slick with red, meaning danger, and she runs to warn the others as bombs fall from the sky. Several of them go ahead to plant food for the camp, including Hunter and Raven's lover, Tack.Īll seems well until Lena, as one of her jobs, checks the bird nests for communications from sympathizers in the verified communities. But she also makes friends amongst the people, especially with Hunter and Sarah.Īs winter draws in, the whole camp must move down south in order to survive. She learns that life here is harsh because the people have so little and have to struggle to survive. ĭay by day she gets better and begins to learn the ways of the Wilds. The novel is split into two narratives "Then" which describes Lena's struggle for survival in the Wilds and "Now" which describes her work for the resistance in New York.
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