Thomas tells her the full story of Metias’s death – the two were close friends and nearly lovers, but Commander Jameson ordered Thomas to kill Metias and he felt he had no choice but to comply. Commander Jameson gets her attention from her cell first and warns June that they are the same. Unaware of Day’s situation, June goes to see Thomas in his cell before his execution. When he wakes up, the doctors tell him that he has only a few months to live. The medics take Day to the hospital and run tests while Day comes in and out of consciousness. Eden and their caretaker Lucy try to comfort him and decide to call an ambulance. Later that night, Day wakes up from a nightmare with an excruciating headache. He asks Day to allow the Republic to experiment on Eden once more to find a cure and prevent invasion by the Colonies. Anden tells Day that the plague in the Colonies likely accidentally came from Eden, who was previously used by the Republic for experimentation and biological warfare. June and Day meet at a government banquet later that evening and quickly enter a conference room with Anden and the two other Princeps-Elects, Serge Carmichael and Mariana Dupree. Meanwhile, June watches the trials of Commander Jameson and Thomas Bryant, two traitorous Republic soldiers who assassinated June’s brother Metias and attempted to assassinate Anden. She tells him that the Colonies, what used to be the eastern United States, has discovered a plague outbreak that they have traced back to the Republic and believe it is an act of war.ĭay lands in Denver and a senator’s daughter takes him shopping. Day is surprised, as they have not spoken in eight months, and even more surprised when June asks him to come to Denver, the capitol city, for an emergency meeting. He is kissing a girl in an alley when June contacts him over the permanent earpiece Day wears. He explores the San Francisco nightlife in disguise, attempting to avoid the celebrity he has gained as a political hero for the people.

He battles a headache, caused by a terminal brain tumor, with hallucinogenic medication and envisions Tess, a close friend, and June Iparis, the Republic soldier and now Princeps-Elect that saved him from execution.

Day Alton Wing walks through a futuristic San Francisco, the city in the Republic in which he lives with his brother Eden. The Republic of America and its long-time enemy, the Colonies, are on the eve of drafting a peace treaty under the leadership of the Republic’s new Elector Primo, Anden Stavropolous.

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