Nothing Ember does changes Chase – not the past, not their moments together, not their friendship. What was the crime? Ember doesn’t have a father and Article 5 stipulates that she is to be “rehabilitated.” What is worse, is that Chase, the love of her life, is arresting her mother. The MM (Military Militia) has come to take away Ember’s mother for breaching Article 5, which meant full prosecution by the government. She remembers those tender moments and always hopes the best for him, wondering if he still feels the same toward her that she does toward him, wherever he may be.īut a knock on her door changes Embers entire life. Now, Chase is gone, and Ember misses him. There was no denying Chase and Ember, as teenagers, were meant to be together. They grew up together since childhood but their friendship turned deeper. She has friends, but the person she misses the most is Chase. Their only act of defiance is hiding magazines and books from the old days days Ember vaguely recalls.
There are only five articles in the Moral Statutes that citizens need to abide by, but the laws change with the wind. Ember thought they were all rumors until it happened to her.
Rumors of mass executions, people disappearing for no reason, prison, deportation….they’re everywhere. Their role? Enforce compliance of the Moral Statutes. The strongest arm of the government is the Military Militia. The War ended three years ago, and the government changed.
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