"Shay totally had her eye on David before I came to the Smoke," Tally says. "But he asked me out instead. He gave me these gloves..." Tally realizes she's totally blubbering. "I'm sorry. I'm so sense-missing. Um... I kind of ran away from home before I got my operation to try and go find my friend Shay, and I found her, but the reason I went is because the authorities back home made me do it or they wouldn't turn me pretty, and they put a tracker on me. I got to the Smoke--the place people go when they run away--and I ended up actually liking it there. I tried to destroy the tracker, but I set it off instead." The memory is painful. "The Smoke was destroyed because of me. David's home."