How It All Goes Down
Pressia (Moths)
- We open up book two of the trilogy at OSR (Operation Sacred Revolution) headquarters: Pressia has just made a mechanical arm for a boy named Perlo.
- Good news, though: El Capitan has turned OSR into a sort of homeless shelter; he's banished the Death Sprees and mandatory enlistment at age sixteen, and has replaced them with promising food for those who volunteer.
- Looks like someone is building an army.
- Apparently the Dome has been releasing more Special Forces. That's no good.
- And Partridge, Lyda, and Illia are being protected by the mothers. That's right, the mothers are back and ready for action.
- Pressia's heard reports that Lyda is learning how to fight—awesome—but Illia is struggling because of the ash in the air.
- By the way, it's winter right now. Winter isn't just coming; it's here.
- Partridge is also protecting vials that contain an important ingredient for the reversal of Rapid Cell Degeneration.
- Pressia finally finds Perlo and gives him his mechanical arm. He's pumped, as you could imagine, and tells her she could maybe make one for herself.
- Bradwell then approaches Pressia. Ooh, ooh: are they married now? Do they have kids? Did they fall in love instantly?
- "But it's not like that between them anymore" (1.26).
- Aww, man.
- Don't worry: Pressia is still totally crushing on him right now. She just doesn't want to admit it.
- Plus, Bradwell's been super busy. He's been studying these doohickeys called "Black Boxes" that they found under the farmhouse. These things aren't just ordinary black boxes though, because one of them bit Bradwell. Wait, what?
- Bradwell admits that it bit him when he was talking about Pressia, and then he shows her to it. He says its name is Fignan.
- What? Why do boxes have names? Why do they bite? Why do they follow Bradwell around at night? What. Are. These. Things.