How It All Goes Down
Partridge (Seven Simple Truths)
- Now, post engagement party, Partridge has to walk Iralene back to their house. Instead of letting her go back to her ice-chamber, he tells her to stay with him for the night.
- Iralene is super pumped, but for the wrong reasons.
- Partridge has her turn the cameras off (which again, excites her), but then starts asking her for information.
- According to her, people say things in front of her because they think she's stupid and can't comprehend anything.
- She's also stumbled upon capsules in the floor below that hold Ellery's "relics," or people that he wants alive, but not actually living.
- Basically, trophies. For example, he'd like Bradwell as a relic.
- Partridge tells her to go to bed and dream for once, and while she's sleeping, he snoops around for something that can remind him of his past, just in case.
- He finds her identification card: it was issued eight years ago, and it says she's sixteen. That means that Ellery must have picked her for Partridge early on, before the Detonations. Hmm.
- Partridge finds a pencil and a receipt in her purse and starts writing.
- He writes down seven truths: he escaped the Dome, he's in love with Lyda, he's pretending to be engaged to Iralene, there are living people frozen in capsules, trust Glassings and not Foresteed, he don't remember any of this because Ellery is evil, and take over and lead from within.
- He needs to put the paper somewhere where he can find it after the procedure—he ends up putting it in the bathroom in a place that he needs to look to fix the toilet.
- Then he breaks the toilet.
- Ahh, toilets. What can't you do?
- All the sudden, Iralene starts screaming in her sleep, so Partridge wakes her up. She had a nightmare about both of them being very small, and people forgetting about them.
- Partridge consoles her and she feels better, but she wants the cameras back on because it helps her feel safe.