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has been for a very long time. We use its geothermic energy for everything from heating to electricity. It’s nothing to worry about.”
    I’m not so sure, but considering it’s been stable for years and Mother is anything but, I decide to focus my energy on Mother.
    Nadia continues as if I didn’t interrupt her. “There are also places with underground waterways. That ‘noise’ is from a waterway we uncovered in the trench wall.”
    â€œSo … there’s water under the water?” Jesus, it only gets worse with everything I hear. Maybe I should just stop asking.
    â€œYes.” She smiles. “I’ll explain more later, but please, we must hurry. We don’t have much time.”
    She continues straight to the unfinished buildings. It’s so strange. I was right about there not being windows and ceilings, but in this particular building a lot of the walls themselves aren’t there either. Most of them are just skeletal innards, studs and crossbeams. We pass through doorless doorways and walk down wall-less hallways.
    Then, in the center of the building, is a room that’s actually a room. With thick, heavy doors. Walls covered with strange drawings and a projection screen on the far side. In the middle is an old saggy table that takes up most of the space in the room. Papers of every size and color cover the top. Dilapidated rolling chairs circle it. Surprisingly, the room is completely quiet. It reminds me of the Detainment Center. My ears ring from the sudden silence.
    â€œSit.” Nadia gestures for us to take one of the chairs and I do so very gingerly. I’m not sure the chair is strong enough to support my weight.
    She waits until Evie takes her seat, then says, “I must ask a favor of you, Evelyn Winters, former Daughter of the People. I know you have questions.” She twitches her gaze toward me. “Both of you. I promise I’ll explain everything, but we don’t have much time.” She focuses on Evie again. “There’s a doctor whose work is important to us. Dr. Moreau. He worked with Dr. Friar on the ‘special projects’ that turned out to be the disaster in Sector Three.” It takes me a minute to figure out Nadia is talking about the monsters that tried to kill us in the abandoned sector back when we first escaped Elysium. “Since the experiments failed, leaving Mother with almost no Guards and a dwindling number of Enforcers, Mother’s decided to fire him.”
    â€œOkay, so what do you need us for?” I ask.
    Nadia gives me an apologetic look. “Not you.” She gestures to Evie. “Miss Evelyn.”
    â€œBut she can’t do anything! She’s still hurt.”
    â€œHer nanites are effectively healing her. She is well enough to perform this mission.”
    â€œWhat mission?” I demand, flabbergasted. Why would they need Evie to help a doctor who’s going to be fired?
    â€œMother doesn’t fire people. She kills them,” Evie says from next to me. Her voice is quiet, almost emotionless, but there’s some tiny hint of something I can’t quite place when she says, “They want me to stop it and bring him here.”

 
    C HAPTER T HREE
    Mother’s word is law. Everyone must follow the law. If you do not, then you are a traitor and will be treated as such.
    â€” C ITIZEN’S S OCIAL C ODE, V OLUME III
    Evie
    I don’t know what I’m doing. Two hours ago I was determined not to leave the Caverns. Not until I was sure Asher was fine—I’m the only family he has, and I put him there, after all. But then Father and Nadia told us about what was supposed to happen to the doctor and I couldn’t just let that happen. Not if there was something I could do to stop it—and a former Enforcer is better than no one. So now I find myself waiting in a dark room in the Medical Sector.
    I have my memories. And my emotions. Two things