Outside Reading Post #6

After Tally gets dropped off by the rangers at the special meeting place, she is reunited with Shay, and meets her friends David and Croy. This is the legendary David that Tally had heard about all the time with Shay, and she gets to know him and the Smoke better. Tally feels it's kind of suspicious that it took her so long to get to the Smoke, so she makes up wild stories of adventures that she encountered on her journey. Tally explores the Smoke, and finds that everything is done by hand, nothing is given automatically, like at home in the city. At first this is hard to get used to, but this way of life begins to grow on her, yet she still is supposed to press the button on the tracker Special Circumstances gave her to be able to find where she is. David starts to like Tally, which makes Shay jealous, he even introduces her to his parents, who were former doctors in the city. At the part I am, Shay is mad at Tally for taking her love, and Tally is confused about whether she should stay, or expose the whole city to Special Circumstances.