Chapters 15-17

Chapter 14 ends with David being beaten unconscious again. Once he regains consciousness, in chapter 15, he realizes that he is being dragged by Sophie. I'm actually kind of happy to read this because I like Sophie, and her and David were very close friends. Sophie helps David to get back into the Fringes town to rescue his friends so that they can continue on with their 'adventure'. David communicates to Michael who tells them that the people following Petra, Rosalind, and David are moving slowly because they are being attacked by the Fringe people. With the author making you think that those three are getting away, it makes me want to think that something surprising is going to happen soon.
In chapter 16, Rosalind questions why Sophie is so willing to help the three of them out. To me, I in a way see this as foreshadowing. Maybe later Sophie will stab them in the back by telling their secret or something? Also in this chapter, The Sealand gives us a description of the bad lands. Describing it as all black grass; and ocean of frozen ink. I like this because it helps me get a mental picture of the book; something that I have found difficult to do. Later Michael talks to David and warns him about the group of people from Waknuk coming to attack them. One of them being Joseph. Soon, a fight between the Fringes and Waknuk people start, just as Sophie heads outside. Gordon picks up Sophie and tries to run, and right then and there they are both shot and killed! This part I did not see coming. I thought for sure Sophie would be at the end of the book with some sort of remarkable ending. During the battle, a helicopter appears in the sky, catching everyone's attention and the war slowly dissolves. Some people fled, while others stayed. A strange substance dispenses from the helicopter paralyzing everyone it touches, including Michael and David.
In the final chapter, The Sealand woman comes down from the helicopter wearing a special suit so that the substance doesn't affect her. She also has some sort of spray that can remove it from others; she sprays this on David, Michael, Petra, and Rosalind. The Sealand woman explains how she doesn't enjoy killing people, but only the fittest will survive. In this case, the telepathic. Finally, David, Rosalind, and Petra arrive at Sealand (Michael went back to Rachel), and it was everything David had dreamed of. They were so excited to see that everyone there was telepathic, like them. With Petra's strong power, people started to complain because it actually hurt them. That's when they realized that Petra was the new "version" of telepaths. After this, it brings us to the end of the book! My thoughts on the ending were okay. Nothing was surprising, no cliffhanger, it was just the ending that I had expected. Overall, the book itself isn't something I'd pick up on my own, but I thought it was a fairly interesting, and well-written book.