The gaiaphage was dead. The FAYZ was gone. They were supposed to be free. Only, they weren't. They were far from free.

It wasn't that Sam and Caine shared a cell in prison, but they shared a room in Dorothy Hills International Institution for Unbalanced and Traumatized Youth. Which essentially was a prison: it wasn't allowed to cross the six feet tall fences at any time and contact with anyone outside the school was out of the question.

Their restraint was part of a compromise, between on one side the people who saw the Perdido survivors, as they were now known, as children of Satan himself, and on the other side the ones who felt pity and thought they were merely the victim of circumstances.

Hence, everyone was acquitted from any sentence, except the people who had committed acts of grievous bodily harm or murder… like Sam and Caine. As a resolution, they were sent to Dorothy Hills, to cure them against the bad influences of the FAYZ.

So there they were, in a secluded institution in the middle of one of the most desolated forests in America, without any access to communication with the outside world and no way to get out. But they had each other. And that would soon prove to be enough…

I'll try to stay close to the original characters as I think they would be after the FAYZ, but I'll ignore who's died and who's still alive in the book, to prevent spoilers but mostly because this story in my head simply doesn't completely adhere to canon, so grant me a bit of artistic freedom on this. Did you enjoy it, did you hate it? Leave a review!