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says.
    “My pack infiltrated the factory by posing as fellow Moondogs, and I managed to gain
     access to the head office.” He presses a button on the com-desk, and the Cinderstone
     shipments log appears on the digital screen on the back wall. “You’ll notice that
     the name Mount Alba crops up time and time again.”
    “The volcano?” Logan says. “But that area has been deserted for decades, ever since
     Mount Alba erupted.”
    “Precisely,” Garrick says. “So I hacked into the Sentry network to find out why they
     were sending so many shipments to a volcano. This is what I found.”
    The image on the digital screen shifts, to zoom in closer to a mountainous terrain
     within the United Sentry States. I instantly spot the volcano, with its familiar flat
     peak—it lost its top after the eruption thirty years ago. At its base is a sprawling
     urban area enclosed by a wall just like the one surrounding the Legion ghetto, but
     on a
much
larger scale. Written in block letters across the urban area are the words THE TENTH .
    “It’s the size of a small state!” I say.
    “Why do you think they called it the Tenth?” Garrick says.
    “Because it’s the tenth state,” I reply, cottoning on.
    He nods. “Really it’s more a state-within-a-state, but the name is sort of catchy.”
    “This isn’t evidence the government plans to exterminate us,” Pullo says in a brusque
     voice.
    “I agree,” Angel chimes in. “It’s just a ghetto. It’s no different from the Legion,
     other than it’s bigger.”
    I look at Garrick. “How are you certain Purian Rose plans to kill the Darklings?”
    “Not just the Darklings,” Garrick says, bringing up some documents stamped CONFIDENTIAL . “From these memos, I was able to determine that Rose plans to send
all
Impurities—”
    “Impurities?” Logan says.
    “Anyone Rose feels doesn’t fit in with his plans for the One Faith, One Race, One
     Nation campaign,” Garrick explains. “This includes Darklings, Bastets, blasphemers,
     race traitors, Dacians—”
    “What about Lupines?” Pullo challenges.
    “We weren’t mentioned in the documents,” Garrick says. “I guess he has other plans
     for us.”
    “Then why are you helping us, if you’re not at risk?” Pullo says. “What do you have
     to gain by telling us about the Tenth?”
    Anger flares across Garrick’s face. “Just because I’m a Lupine doesn’t mean I obediently
     follow everything Purian Rose says and does. I happen to support the rebellion.”
    “I’m a little confused,” Logan says. “Rose’s Law only specifies the segregation of
     Darklings from humans, so how can he justify sending those other people to the concentration
     camp?”
    “The Darklings are just pawns in all this,” Garrick explains. “The government is playing
     on the tension between your two species to garner support for segregation. But once
     the law passes, they intend to attach addenda to Rose’s Law to include
all
the groups—”
    “And because they’ll be adding to an existing law, he doesn’t need another vote to
     do it,” Sigur finishes. “He can send anyone to the Tenth, and it’ll be perfectly legal.”
    There are outraged murmurs among the Assembly.
    “You didn’t answer my earlier question,” I say. “How do you know Rose plans to kill
     us?”
    “From the intel I’ve gathered, it’s clear that the Tenth is divided into three cities.”
     Garrick presses a button, and a trio of urban areas glows on the map.
    Each city is surrounded by its own boundary wall and joined together by a complex
     system of roads and rail networks. Garrick indicates the largest city in the Tenth,
     which is easily five times bigger than Black City.
    “This city is called Primus-One. It’s the base camp, where all new arrivals will be
     sent before they are evaluated and then transported to Primus-Two or Primus-Three.”
     He indicates the two smaller cities, to the south and east of Mount Alba. “Prisoners