Ashleigh had returned to the sparring grounds after visiting with Bell.
Caleb was leaving to head to the southern border and start the defenses immediately. He asked her to come along, but she chose to stay behind.
She needed time on her own to think. To figure out the situation with her brother.
The more she thought about it, the less it made sense.
Alice was an unknown at this point.
She had done bad things, but supposedly she didn’t have a choice. Unless that was a lie, but so many people seemed to have already confirmed it.
Why was everyone Ashleigh trusted so willing to give Alice a chance, but Ashleigh was so against it?
‘They have been fooled.’
Alice hacked Summer. She had left a worm that continued to steal and destroy information. But then, she had also left behind a system restore that gave them back everything they lost and even heightened their defenses.
