Break 1
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Break 1 is the first chapter of break.
Plot
Ray talks to McCauleigh Hennigar about her cutting off Corbin’s thumb, the meeting concludes with them agreeing to reevaluate how much progress before the fall/winter semester and deciding if she will get expelled then. Before she leaves she turns to Ray and says “you’re really bad at this”.
Ray things about his three projects the atheneum arrangement which is expanding into Asia, the golden garden which is an online market place and the black box, an early warning system where users could report varies dangers.
Ray rings Judah and asks him to help with the athenuim, he says he can’t because he’s busy with other projects but eventually capitulates when
Next he phones Maurice Crowe, they talk about family and Maurice passes on Luise Crowe’s regards. Ray eventually gets round to asking her to teach but she refuses to associate with Musser on moral grounds. She suggests get apprentices but Ray explains all the difficulties he’s had with finding appropriate people. She finishes the conversation by says she’ll ask Luise.
As he leaves his office he passes Seth and Nicolette and he starts a conversation with the two of them. Seth says Kass Knox has visited him.
Ray says the school should be a safe place for him now they’ve set up protections and Nicolette comments that the TV normally works now. They offer to extend the protections so he can leave the school for a short while but he refuses. Ray mentions he’s going to visit Charles Abrams and Seth asks if he can come but is refused.
He ray gets to Charles he finds him guarded by a shadow. They talk and Charles asks why Ray kept working with Alexander despite knowing how he acted, he also accuses him of failing to save Seth. Ray replies that the school would have been worse off if he left. Charles goes on to accuse him of abandoning Hector when he should have been looking after him.
Nicolette rings Ray and tells him the students are unsettled, Ray summons a bunch of Others to guard Charles and heads off. Many of the students have been given pieces of paper with various offers on them, all they need to do is head to a certain location. Durocher has set a primeval to guard the school. The other senior students approach, Estrella, Amine, Ulysses, Eloise and Hadley. Ray sends the students off to their rooms.
Nicolette receives a call from Avery and learns that Maricica is involved. Estrella pulls of a silver chain and uses it all the check that none of them are secretly Maricica. She then lunges towards Seth and he breaks into a bundle of sticks, cursing her in the process. Ulysses removes it by kissing her.
Kassidy never actually talked to Seth, it was someone else pretending to be her.
Everyone splits up to look for Seth and Ray uses technomancy to spy on Charles, blowing up his TV to disrupt any glamour. He turns a bird into a drone and uses it to see from, finding Seth running away from the school holding a bunch of flowers. Nicolette suddenly slaps his glasses away just before a four inch spike of thorn removes his eye.
Ray removes the summons from outside Charles room and Durocher destroys the door with her guard dog revealing that Charles was gone. Seth had created a window then broken it to get Charles out.
Lucy Avery and Verona arrive at the edge of the school grounds, stopped by Durocher’s monster.
They see Seth and Charles fleeing towards the school perimeter, Ray creates a series of electric fences to prevent them leaving then summons a door and teleports next to them. Ray pulls out a laser pointer and uses it to cut down several trees. Charles tells him to either kill him or let him go, saying that he was by Hector's and that Ray was a coward for not being their.
Maricica appears and pulls his hand down and closes his eye lids, pushing him as she does so. She informs him that her notes to the students told them to step outside about now and that if he uses his laser pointer he might hit one of them.
Nicolette appears and tells him to shoot upwards, he misses and Nicolette tells him that Maricica and Charles have run off to Kennet leaving a trail of cursed flowers behind to prevent them chasing them.
Major plot events
- Charles escapes from captivity with the help from Seth and Maricica
Characters
Blue Heron Institute |
References
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