These thoughts are interrupted when an official takes her to the Communication Hall. Later, when messages are given to all the girls, Cassia receives one from her parents and Bram, but she is concerned because Xander has never missed sending her one before.

Along with keeping her possessions hidden, Cassia has to hide her status as a Citizen from the other girls because the others are mostly, if not all, Aberrations like Ky. Since the first two are technically illegal, she buried them in a part of the camp where no one would find them. As soon as the girls finish looking at the art, the small paper falls to pieces and Cassia has to incinerate it.Īside from the painting, Cassia still has some other belongings that she keeps hidden: Ky's compass, the blue tablets Xander gave her, and her silver box from the Match Banquet. Xander apparently gave it to Cassia the day they said goodbye, and it contains the painting Chasm of the Colorado by Thomas Moran.

When she takes out a small scrap of one of the Hundred Paintings, the girls crowd around her because the scrap of art is so rare where they are. While getting cleaned with the rest of the girls in her cabin, Cassia takes out a small pouch of memories, full of little messages from her family and other papers that are falling apart. Her next assignment will be at Central, the biggest City, and she will be working in one of its sorting centers. Meanwhile, Cassia has been working in the Farmlands where her family has been sent, and the entire time that she has been there she has not forgotten about Ky.Ĭassia has been working for three months in different camps, but all of them in the Tana Province. In reality, the Aberrations are not used as soldiers instead, they are supposed to be decoy villagers to attract the enemy's attention. Since leaving the city, he has been waiting in a holding camp to be sent to the Outer Provinces to fight the enemy.

When Crossed starts, Ky, with help from Vick, is putting an Aberration's body into a river under orders from an Official.

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