![]() When violence erupts across the Withers, Nate’s illegal supply of medicine is cut off, and a vicious attack on Reed threatens to expose his secret. ![]() When he meets Reed, a kind and fiercely protective boy who makes his heart race, and his misfit gang of scavengers, Nate finds the family he’s always longed for-even if he can’t risk telling them what he is.īut Gathos created a genetic fail-safe in their GEMs-a flaw in their DNA that causes their health to rapidly deteriorate as they age unless they are regularly dosed with medication controlled by Gathos City. ![]() He manages to survive by becoming a Tinkerer, fixing broken tech in exchange for food or a safe place to sleep. ![]() As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers-a quarantined, lawless region. Sixteen-year-old Nate is a GEM-a Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue-created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population. ![]()
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