


The Colonies are an area in eastern Colorado and the Dakotas. Day wants to make sure his former companion Tess is safe with the revolutionaries before he and June head to the Colonies. June knows the Patriots will not help them without payment, and she has no money left to offer them. Day needs medical attention, and he believes they will be able to reunite with the Patriots. June and Day travel by train to Las Vegas, the farthermost military outpost of the Republic. June and a political group called the Patriots saved Day from being executed as a traitor to the Republic. Fifteen-year-old military prodigy June Iparis is on the run with Day, the 15-year-old guerilla revolutionary with whom she’s fallen in love.
