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Conner runs away
Conner finds out he is going to be unwound because he was looking for a stapler and finds only 3 plane tickets, then finds his unwinding order. Conner runs away and goes AWOL (away without leave.) He ends up going by himself after his girlfriend said she would not go with him. -
Meeting Risa
Risa is introduced into the book after we find out she is going to be unwound because she is useless. She takes a bus to a harvest camp which crashes and then she runs to the woods and meets Connor, who was in the semi. -
In the woods and storked
Conner follows Risa into the woods after Lev is shot with a tranq bullet. They shoot a Juvey cop so they can set up a camp. They then take a storked off of a doorstep and get onto a school bus, which takes them to a school. -
School and Hannah
They get to the school and they hide in the bathroom. Lev pulls the fire alarm and the teacher named Hannah takes them to an antique shop. They go to the antique shop and meet 3 other unwinds, Mai, Hayden and Roland. -
Sonia & antique shop
Sonia lets them come into the shop, they find out she is hiding unwinds in her basement. She lets them hide there for a while, then sends them to another safe house. -
Airplane warehouse
A bunch of unwinds are all in a warehouse, waiting for something to happen, but nobody knows what they are waiting for. They figure out that Roland is getting people to support him, since he is the leader. Risa thinks he is trying to defeat conner. -
Airplane
They get put into crates to go into the graveyard. They are talking about what happens after you get unwound, and what the difference between dying and getting unwound is. -
Graveyard
The graveyard is a place where the unwinds are held until they are 18. Once they are 18 they are not able to be unwound. While they are at the graveyard, the goldens, which are the admiral's helpers, are suffocated and locked in a crate with no holes shot in the crate, like the rest of them. -
Harvest camp
The admiral has a heart attack and Connor and Risa risk being unwound to save him. Roland turns them in, all three of them go to a harvest camp. While they are there everyone looks up to Connor because he was awol and he shot a cop. -
Conners unwind
Conner is set to be unwound. Lev, Mai and Blaine cause a ruckus to distract the clappers. Blaine and Mai both explode but Lev saves Conner and Risa from the fire. None of them can be unwound now. Conner is someone new, Risa is paralyzed, and Lev has explosive chemicals in his blood.