Juliette puts the dress on, even as she wonders about the meaning of the note. Once the door is closed, she opens the notebook and discovers Adam has written a note telling her that things are not as they seem. She hides it under the dress and takes it into the bathroom where there are no cameras. It is then she discovers her notebook, hidden on a shelf. When Adam tells her to wear the purple dress, she takes it out of the armoire. Although she hates that he is now a soldier, she will not allow him to suffer because of her. When she goes to her room, she finds that Adam has been beaten because he had not convinced her to wear a dress. He warns her that his patience is not endless. Warner tries to bribe Juliette with scrumptious food, but she refuses to eat. Although she gives in to the temptation to bathe with real soap and shampoo, she refuses Adam’s request, per Warner’s orders, that she put on a new dress for dinner. Adam tells her it is also filled with cameras everywhere but in the bathroom. Her new bedroom is beautiful with a queen-sized bed and a bathroom with a shower. She is shocked when Adam takes her into a huge institutional-looking building and discovers that on the inside, it is a testimony of greed and excess. She sees the hopelessness of the people in the streets, and their fear of being killed if they protest the government. Houses have been destroyed in favor of large compounds. Along the way, she sees the how the Reestablishment has changed the landscape of the city. He orders Adam to guard her and help break her. Juliette initially refuses his offer, but Warner will not be put off so quickly. In exchange for her freedom and a lifestyle of luxury, she will be Warner’s personal weapon. Now that Juliette’s sanity is determined, Warner has a deal for her. He sent Adam into her cell to make sure she was not psychotic, that she could be rational.
Warner has studied her records and knows her power. At gunpoint, he and another guard take her to meet Warner, the officer in charge.
Juliette wakes up two days later and discovers that Adam is a soldier for the Reestablishment. As she blacks out, she fears that the soldiers have killed Adam for trying to protect her. Before she gets the courage to tell him the truth, soldiers come, beat her and drag her out of her cell. It breaks her heart that he seems to have forgotten her. She longs to tell him who she is, especially when he comforts her after a nightmare. He is Adam, the only boy in school who ever looked at her with kindness, and not fear. After several days, Juliette admits to herself that she knows him. Her new roommate is gentle and kind, but Juliette does not allow herself to trust him. But the Reestablishment has become a violent tyranny, intent on subduing the people and keeping power and wealth for themselves. Crops can no longer grow because the weather is erratic - one day hot, the next day cold. She records what she knows about the Reestablishment, a group that promised to help the nation recover what it lost to climate change. Only there does she admit her desires and fears. Her only comfort until now has been the small notebook that she writes in daily. She has been alone, emotionally and physically, for so long that she does not trust anyone. Although she longs for companionship, she is hesitant to open up to him. In solitary confinement for almost a year, Juliette is surprised, and a little frightened, when she is given a roommate. She only wanted to help him after his mother knocked him down, but when she touched him, he died. Her incarceration came after she unintentionally killed a toddler. She attended school, but was kept separate from her peers.
Ever since she was a child, Juliette’s touch has caused other people pain. Her parents willingly surrendered her to the government because they feared her. Juliette has been locked away in an institution for 264 days.
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