<P> Kira slowly learns that her life is less than idyllic . Thomas hears crying in her building, and she and Thomas discover another orphan, a very young girl named Jo, whose ability to sing is magnificent; she is kept with intent to eventually replace the current Singer . Jo is scolded and punished if she does not sing; Kira secretly befriends her, (sneaking into Jo's locked room at night to comfort her) and realizes that she, Thomas, and Jo do not have as much freedom as they had previously thought . Annabella abruptly dies, and Kira is left to continue her work . This, and the secluded life that a very young Jo must live, help Kira decide to find out the truth about her society . </P> <P> On the day that the Singer sings the Song at the Gathering, Matt is nowhere to be found . At the Ceremony of the Gathering, she notices that the current Singer has the staff that Thomas has worked so hard on, and is also wearing the robe that she repaired and enhanced . She realizes that his feet are chained, injured, scarred, and bleeding, meaning that he is essentially a prisoner, only kept for this one event because of his talent . The implication is that she and the others with Gifts, that the Counsel has saved for these jobs, are also prisoners . Their gifts are in control of the Council, by tenants who without any creativity of their own seek to control these three, in order to provide a future which they envision . </P> <P> After a long absence, Matt returns with a blind man from a distant village called the Village of Healing . The man is interestingly enough wearing a blue shirt - something that Kira's people don't do due to the lack of knowledge thereof . It turns out that he is the father who Kira thought was dead: Christopher . It is revealed that he had been attacked years before by another hunter who was jealous of his immediate potential of being a member on the Council of the Guardians . First, he was beaten and then had his face stabbed - thus losing his sight . Being taken to the fields to die amongst the other rejected ailed, injured, and dying citizens of their society, he was rescued by some people he could not see - who took him to the Village he now lives in . The community in which he now lives is made up of injured and disabled people who help one another, rather than bicker and fight for their lives as Kira's does . Matt excitedly explains that in this Village they know the way to make blue threads, bringing plants that will allow Kira to do the same . </P> <P> After a long heartfelt reunion with his daughter, Christopher reveals that he has enemies on the Council . The one who maimed him years before was none other than Jamison . He tearfully apologizes for taking so long to return to get her; because of his memory loss caused by the beating, and his loss of sight - he had no way of finding her . It was because Matt had gone looking for a way to make blue for Kira, and stumbled upon Christopher's Village, explaining where he came from - that the events began to roll forward in such a way that Christopher could again reunite with his daughter . Kira begins to wonder if her mother's sudden death, as well as the deaths of the two other orphans' parents, were actually by the Council's hand; in order to acquire these young, gifted children - seeking to mold them into creating the future which they want . </P>

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