OAKHAVEN
"But you know they won't let you live. You're a 'glitch' in their perfect system, Maya. They don't fix glitches. They delete them."
I looked down at my hands. They were still dirty from the tunnel floor. My life as a student was gone. The girl who cared about test scores, the girl who was afraid of being late, she was dead. Standing in the cold, dark underground, I felt a strange sense of freedom.
"I’m not going back," I said.
Leo nodded, as if he expected nothing less. "Good. Because tomorrow is Selection Day for the rest of your class. They’re going to be looking for a replacement, and they’re going to be angrier than ever. We have work to do."