***WINNER of the "BREATHTAKING: A FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WRITING COMPETITION!"
"You are a secret kept from the world, but not from me." So begins the peculiar message found slipped under a bedroom door on the morning of May first.
Theo...
To assist you in linking Theo's questions back to the story, the dates below correspond not to the date he wrote a question, but to the following day, in which he would have received Merryn's response.
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May 1st. Merryn contacts Theo for the first time.
May 2nd. Is this a joke?
May 3rd. Are you a girl or boy?
May 4th. What do you mean by "the fate that awaits me?"
May 5th. What riots?
May 6th. Do you work for my parents?
May 7th. Have we already met sometime in the past?
May 8th. Have you been back to the tower since then (not including the past week)?
May 9th. What is your name?
May 10th. Why did my mother choose you?
May 11th. What happened to your parents?
May 12th. Do you know where your two youngest brothers went, and what happened to Graden?
May 13th. What's your favorite flavor of Ice cream?
May 14th. What do you look like?
May 15th. Can I have a picture of you?
May 16th. Do you really dream about me?
May 17th. Will this dream ever come true, will I ever be with you and be free?
May 18th. Is this real? How do I know you're not making this all up—are you even real?
May 19th. Why do you think your brother can out-lead the Leader?
May 20th. What kind of friend did Graden expect Jeffers to be?
May 21st. Did he do it? Does Jeffers work for my father now?
May 22nd. Was Jeffers the only one Graden sent to infiltrate the Tower?"
May 23rd. Why didn't you say you were a member of the Dissent?
May 24th. Does the Dissent know I exist?
May 25th. Did you tell your brother about me?
May 26th. No question.
May 27th. No question.
May 28th. What do you want from me, Merryn?
May 29th. I could be telling all of this to my father. Why do you trust me?
May 30th. Do you really think I'd leave without you?
