Julian also starts opening up to Lena, telling her he dreams of traveling the world.Īfter a few days of being held hostage, Lena wakes up to Julian watching her and running his fingers through her hair. The public does not know that they are two separate groups with different motives. While talking to Julian, Lena realizes that Scavenger attacks are being blamed on the resistance. Julian is unused to being around girls and is distrustful of Lena Lena is nervous that Julian will discover she is lying. Trapped together, Lena lies to Julian, telling him that she is a high school student who has already received the cure. The two are locked in an underground room connected to the subway system and given little food and water. As instructed, Lena follows Julian and ends up kidnapped herself. They murder Julian’s bodyguards and kidnap Julian.
Lena does not know why they want her to do this, but she does as she is asked.ĭuring the demonstration, Scavengers attack. They also tell her not lose sight of Julian. Tack and Raven insist that Lena take a copy of the Book of Shhh, the DFA’s religious teachings, and an umbrella in her backpack. The DFA is pushing for the cure to be administered before a person’s 18th birthday, but the public is not convinced that the procedure is safe. Lena, Tack and Raven attend a big DFA demonstration in New York City. Lena wonders what would be the point of Julian having the procedure if it kills him. When Julian sees her, he tells her that the images are surveillance photos and that the DFA is looking for rebel camps. When she returns for them, she sees a projector showing pictures of the mountains and oceans. After the meeting, Lena realizes that she left her gloves in the auditorium. Another procedure, such as the cure, may leave him in a permanent vegetative state or kill him, but he believes so strongly in the cure that he is willing to take the chance. Julian has had seizures since he was young and had several operations to remove brain tumors. Lena attends a Deliria-Free America (DFA) meeting where Julian Fineman, son of DFA founder Thomas Fineman, speaks about the cure for deliria. The apartment has a hidden room filled with fake IDs and other resistance paraphernalia. She lives in a small apartment with Raven and Tack. Several months later, Lena has become an active part of the resistance, living in New York City and posing as a high school student who has already received the cure. Lena and Raven become trapped and are about to be killed when the scouts, Tack and Hunter, show up and shoot the Scavengers. They are attacked by Scavengers, a group of uncured people who are not fighting to get rid of the cure like the resistance, but create havoc by stealing and destroying everything in their path. She agrees to have a procedural scar cut and branded behind her ear so she can work as a spy for the resistance the scar marks her as someone who has had the cure.Īfter heading south for several weeks, the rebels are tired and hungry, and see no sign of the scouts that were sent ahead. Lena’s anger about losing Alex and so many other things in her life intensifies, and she is filled with hatred. Additionally, the scouts don’t return and are feared dead. The journey is hard, and without food, medicine, proper clothing or first aid, more rebels die. Some of the rebels die, and Lena and others barely escape with their lives. But the government bombs the homestead before the rebels can leave. She sends scouts ahead to mark the way and bury food.
With cold weather approaching, Raven decides it is time for the rebels to move to another homestead in the South for the winter. After Lena is nursed back to health at a rebel’s homestead, she slowly becomes a part of their community, learning that life in the Wilds is much more physically demanding than life in the city. Near death, Lena is rescued by a group of rebels led by a young woman named Raven and her second in command, Tack. The last time Lena saw Alex, he had been shot as an army of men descended on him. Alex gave himself up so Lena could escape into the Wilds to avoid “the cure,” which is a government mandate for delirium. Lena is wracked with guilt and sadness over losing Alex, the rebel boy she fell in love with, even though love (amor deliria nervosa or delirium) has been declared a disease by the U.S. The story begins right after Lena’s dramatic escape from Portland, Maine, which left her wandering, injured and alone, through the Wilds, the unregulated area outside the city. Pandemonium is told from two perspectives: “Then,” when Lena first enters the Wilds, and “Now,” when Lena is living in New York City pretending to be cured while spying for the resistance.
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