Wool

Juliette reports for her shift, but thoughts of her conversation with Walker and the danger facing the silo distracts her. She questions everything she has been taught about the silo, thinking: “What God would make so much rock below and air above and just a measly silo between?” (189). She thinks it was more likely that IT designed the silo than God.

Juliette starts to think of a plan to secure better quality materials for the cleaning suits, a favor to the next cleaner and a way to “pull to wool back from everyone’s eyes” (191). After her shift, Juliette heads toward the mess hall when the lower-level Deputy Hank arrests her “for grave crimes against the silo” (192).

The climb up to the holding cell takes three days. She stays in a cell overnight in the mids’ deputy station, where Lukas comes to visit her. He tells her he is collecting signatures to fight her arrest. Juliette tells him the situation is hopeless. Lukas tells her that he was coming to ask her out that day she ran past him on the staircase. Juliette sends him away, not wanting him to pine for a condemned person.