How It All Goes Down
Lyda (Weakness)
- The mothers are planning their attack on the Dome, and Lyda decides to use this time to bond with Mother Hestra.
- Mother Hestra has the words The dogs barked loudly. It was almost dark burned into her head because she was holding a piece of paper with those words. Apparently she had been a writer during the Before, and this was a part of one of her stories.
- The story was about her sister who was killed by the government. Mother Hestra didn't have the nerve to publish it though, so it's a permanent reminder of cowardice.
- She shows Lyda two things the mothers found while looking for the others: the maps Lyda and Partridge drew, and the robotic spider grenades.
- The plan: use the grenades to destroy the points of weakness of the Dome.
- Lyda tries to outsmart Mother Hestra by telling her that the maps were decoys, but there's no fooling Mother Hestra.