Outside Reading Post #5

Tally sets off on the journey to find the smoke with the very confusing directions that Shay gave her. It was a kind of riddle, so that Special Circumstances wouldn't be able to decode it. Tally starts out her journey, and encounters obstacles along the way, such as almost being sucked under the current of the river, getting lost numerous times, having her clothes fly away while bathing in the river, and almost being torched in a field of flowers. The field of flowers was on fire because a group of elder Pretties set fire to them to prevent them from spreading like a virus. They pick up Tally in their helecopter, and she finds out that they are in alliance with the people in the Smoke,and they drop off any runaways they find at a special place where the Smokies come retrieve them. Tally doesn't really understand why they don't report these people to Special Circumstances, but they are Rangers and that's what they do.