Tally Timeline and Summary

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• Tally misses Peris but meets Shay.
• They pull some ugly tricks, and Shay teaches Tally how to ride a hoverboard, but they also argue about whether or not the pretty surgery is a good thing.
• Shay leaves for the Smoke, but Tally stays to be made pretty.
• Surprise! Dr. Cable refuses to let Tally get the surgery. Cable blackmails Tally into telling about the Smoke.
• Tally hesitates. Her parents can't convince her to break her promise to Shay, but Peris eventually does.
• But that's not enough for Cable, who sends Tally off to find the Smoke.
• Tally has some adventures finding the Smoke, including finding some pretties who seem smarter than other pretties and who are performing some environmental management.
• Tally reaches the Smoke and learns both about the Smoke (how it works, who lives there) and about the Rusty civilization (how they looked weird, and eventually died).
• Tally spends some time with David, which isn't bad for her (David is okay), except that she seems to get in the way of Shay having a relationship with David.
• David's parents tell Tally that the pretty surgery causes brain damage.
• Tally destroys the tracking device in rage, but the fire activates it and Special Circumstances swoop in.
• When Special Circumstances destroys the Smoke, Tally escapes and finds David.
• They go to the city and rescue the captives, but David's dad is dead (guilt) and Shay is pretty (major guilt).
• And then Tally confesses everything to David and volunteers to be made pretty so that David's mom can test her brain-damage cure.