Full Summary:
With Lina, Poppy and Doon on the surface, they have to find a way for everyone to get to the surface. Devising a plan to get everyone to where they are, they start building a crane of sorts. With the help of some unlikely friends who have lived on the surface their whole lives, they lower the crane down the hole and start pulling people up. What will life be like now that the people of Ember live on the surface? Will life be harder then it was in Ember? Or will life be easier now that they don't have to worry about the generator failing ever day of the week? Will their new friends help them make a life for themselves on the surface? And how did these 'friends' end up on the surface in the first place? Will the real reason the people of Ember went underground in the first place come out in the open?
A New World:
Doon, Lina and Poppy:
We had journeyed up to the surface using the map the builders of Ember had left us. We knew that if we didn't find anything except darkness, then maybe everyone was right. But as morning dawned so came the light and we knew that we had to tell the people of Ember of what was on the surface. We dropped a rock down the hole and waited to see if people would find their way up to the surface. We knew that we may have gotten out the way we had come, but that the others might not know how to get out.
We had to come up with a way to get them out of Ember and fast, before the generator failed for good. We didn't have any materials to get them out, but we did have the hope that they would find their way to us soon. We had rope that we had brought with us and knew that it probably wasn't long enough to reach ember, but we had to try. We took it off from around Doon's waist and started tying our shoe laces to it to make it longer. The more we tied to it, the longer the rope became. When we ran out of stuff to tie to it, we looked around to see what else we could use. We saw branches on the ground and untied some of the ropes and shoe laces and tied the leaves into the rope and shoe laces. By the time we were done tying the branches into the rope, the rope was about 500 feet long or so.
We threw one end of the rope down into the hole and watched it cascade downward till it reached Ember. With any luck, it would end up at the Town Square and someone would send up a flare to see how far it went up. With any luck, the flare would reach the hole we were looking through and they would know that light existed outside of ember. With any luck, our families would be with us yet again. We heard the crunch of leaves behind us and turned.