He was fiercely dedicated to her, and even skipped his military induction ceremony to take care of June when she had a fever. June remembers being raised by Metias after their parents died. As he passes out, he notices that the special pendant he always wears around his neck is gone. He resurfaces in the Lake sector and collapses a block away from the warehouse. Metias almost catches him, but Day throws a knife into his shoulder and disappears into the sewer. He gets trapped in a stairwell then jumps out of a window, injuring his ankle. Day sees the symbol from his family’s door and realizes it means that a member of his family has come down with a new, mutated strain of the plague.ĭay takes the suppressant and narrowly escapes. Unfortunately, the hospital has run out of the cure, and only the weaker plague suppressant is left. He uses the knives he keeps hidden in his boots to take a doctor hostage, and he demands the plague cure. Once Day is admitted to the waiting room, he steals a soldier’s ID badge and climbs through the air ducts to the third floor, where the medicine is kept. On his way in, he sees Metias talking to some deliverymen. He smears himself with dirt and pig’s blood, and enters the hospital, pretending to have been stabbed in a fight. The police never caught him because the evidence melted.īack in the present, Day breaks into the hospital to steal plague medicine for his family. Day was so angry that he burned down the police station, using a ball of ice covered in oil. When he was seven, the police broke both of his father’s arms while interrogating him for reasons Day doesn’t know. The one time he let her shadow him on an assignment, she was wounded since then, he doesn’t let her go with him into the field.ĭay remembers his first crime. June wants to go with him, but Metias refuses. They drop her off at home, and then Metias hurries to Los Angeles Central Hospital, where he’s overseeing the delivery of a mutated virus. Metias and his driver, Thomas, also a soldier, are annoyed that June has gotten in trouble again, but they quickly get over it. Metias is a military captain and he takes care of June since their parents died in a car crash several years ago. Whitaker calls June’s brother, Metias Iparis, to pick her up. She’s determined to catch him once she graduates and joins the military, where the Republic sends all of its best minds.
June wanted to practice scaling buildings because that’s what Day, the Republic’s most wanted criminal, is famous for. Her latest stunt is scaling the side of a skyscraper a few blocks off campus, which infuriates the dean secretary, Arisna Whitaker. She gets perfect grades, but she also gets in trouble constantly. She is the only person ever to get a perfect score of 1500 on her Trial, and despite her young age, she is already a senior at the best school in the Republic, Drake University. June Iparis is a fifteen-year-old prodigy. Day has never seen this symbol before and wonders what it means. When they emerge, they paint an "X" on the door, and then a vertical line that chops the "X" in half. Usually the test only takes ten minutes, but the soldiers are in the house for over an hour.
DREAMFALL CHAPTERS BOOK 5 ESCAPE HOSPITAL ROOM TRIAL
Day failed his Trial five years ago but escaped death.Īs Day and Tess watch from outside, the soldiers enter Day’s house to test for plague. If a child scores below 1000 on the Trial, he or she is sent “to the labs to be examined for imperfections” (8) and then killed. When a child turns 10, he or she takes the Trial, a test that determines whether they will continue in school or be sent to work in the factories. Day worries about his Mom and his younger brother, Eden, who is about to turn 10. These include a pair of goggles as a birthday present for Day’s older brother, John, the only member of the family who knows that Day is still alive.
Today, Day plans to surprise his family with some food and presents he has stolen. Republic soldiers inspect households every few months to make sure no one is infected if someone has the plague, the front door of their home is spray-painted with a red ‘X’ and quarantined. Each week, they spy on Day’s family to make sure they haven’t caught the plague that is wreaking havoc in the poor sectors of the city.
Day and his friend Tess live in an abandoned warehouse and forage to survive. Legend takes place in the Republic stronghold of Los Angeles, most of which has been flooded by a hurricane and replaced with a large lake.Īuthorities are hunting for a fifteen-year-old criminal named Day. Many years in the future, America is divided into two countries: the Republic and the Colonies.
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