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The Institute

That’s right
, Avery said. 
That’s how it works. They’re the battery
.
Nicky’s head was clear—absolutely no pain. Looking at the others, he guessed they were the
same. Whether the headaches would come back—or when—was impossible to say. For now he
was only grateful.
No more need for the sparkler; they were past that now. They were riding the hum.
Nicky bent over the caretakers who had Tased themselves into unconsciousness and started
going through their pockets. He found what he was looking for and handed it to Kalisha, who
handed it to Avery. “You do it,” she said.
Avery Dixon—who should have been home eating supper with his parents after another
hard day of being the smallest boy in his fifth-grade class—took the orange key card and pressed
it to the sensor panel. The lock thumped, and the door opened. The residents of Gorky Park
were clustered on the other side like sheep huddled together in a storm. They were dirty, mostly
undressed, dazed. Several of them were drooling. Petey Littlejohn was going “ya-
ya
-ya-
ya
-ya-
ya

as he thumped his head.
They are never coming back, Avery thought. Their gears are too stripped to recover. Maybe
Iris, too.
George: 
But the rest of us might have a chance.
Yes.
Kalisha, knowing it was cold, also knowing it was necessary: 
In the meantime, we can use
them
.
“What now?” Katie asked. “What now what 
now
?”
For a moment none of them answered, because none of them knew. Then Avery spoke up.
Front Half. Let’s get the rest of the kids and get out of here.
Helen: 
And go where?


An alarm began to blare, 
whoop-whoop-whoop
ing in rising and falling cycles. None of them
paid any attention.
“We’ll worry about where later,” Nicky said. He joined hands with Kalisha and George
again. “First, let’s get some payback. Let’s do some damage. Anyone got a problem with that?”
No one did. Hands once more linked, the eleven who had begun the revolt started back
down the hall toward the Back Half lounge, and the elevator lobby beyond. The residents of
Ward A followed in a kind of zombie shuffle, perhaps drawn by the magnetism of children who
could still think. The hum had dropped to a drone, but it was there.
Avery Dixon reached out, searching for Luke, hoping to find him in a place too far away to
be of any help to them. Because that would mean at least one of the Institute’s child slaves was
safe. There was a good chance the rest of them were going to die, because the staff of this
hellhole would do anything to keep them from escaping.
Anything.


27
Trevor Stackhouse was in his office down the hall from Mrs. Sigsby’s, pacing up and down
because he was too wired to sit, and would remain that way until he heard from Julia. Her news
might be good or bad, but any news would be better than this waiting.
A telephone rang, but it was neither the traditional jingle of the landline or the 
brrt-brrt
of
his box phone; it was the imperative double-honk of the red security phone. The last time it had
rung was when the shit-show with those twins and the Cross boy had gone down in the
cafeteria. Stackhouse picked it up, and before he could say a word, Dr. Hallas was gibbering in
his ear.
“They’re out, the ones who watch the movies for sure and I think the gorks are out, too,
they’ve hurt at least three of the caretakers, no, four, Corinne says she thinks Phil Chaffitz is
dead, electrocu—”
“SHUT UP!”
Stackhouse yelled into the phone. And then, when he was sure (no, not sure,
just hopeful) that he had Heckle’s attention, he said: “Put your thoughts in order and tell me
what happened.”
Hallas, shocked back to an approximation of his once-upon-a-time rationality, told
Stackhouse what he had seen. As he was nearing the end of his story, the Institute’s general
alarm began to go off.
“Christ, did you turn that on, Everett?”
“No, no, not me, it must have been Joanne. Dr. James. She was in the crematory. She goes
there to meditate.”
Stackhouse was almost sidetracked by the bizarre image this raised in his mind, Dr. Jeckle
sitting crosslegged in front of the oven door, perhaps praying for serenity, and then he forced
his mind back to the situation at hand: the Back Half children had raised some kind of half-
assed mutiny. How could it have happened? It had never happened before. And why 
now
?
Heckle was still talking, but Stackhouse had heard all he needed. “Listen to me, Everett. Get
every orange card you can find and burn them, okay? 

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