Ivy Cole is a teenaged girl who was injured in a freeway accident and taken by the government. Her hair is long with silver steaks and her eyes are a very light blue as results from the accident. She tells this chapter.


I never wanted this...

I didn't ask for it...

It just happened to me.

I ride my bike across the freeway to school when I feel like I'm being watched. I stop in the middle of the road and looked around.

I think the freeway is abandoned, as it usually was at 3:30 AM. There were always no birds... No cars... No people...

But not today.

I notice a large, black bird-a raven, maybe-sitting on a lamp. It watches me, tilting its head and cawing. Then it flies away, just as the rumbling starts.

I cast a glance to the left and saw an enormous transport truck flying towards me.

It rams me head-on and I can't even twitch an eye in attempt to stop it.

I pass out cold.


The next thing I know, I'm on a medical bed in the hospital with doctors staring down at me. My vision is black and white, and I can't remember anything.

Who I am, how I got here, where "here" even is. Nothing.

Except for the raven. I remember every detail of the raven.

My eyes slowly close again just as I'm wheeled into a pure white room, filled with soldiers.