THE LEADER’S RESIDENCE overlooked the ocean. The landscape had changed so much, Cherry found it hard to guess where the place stood in relation to the old breakaway settlement in the cliff face. Had the Concordians fixed up the old site? There was so much she didn’t know. So much to find out. One thing especially, though she didn’t want to know the answer to that question.
The Leader lived in a three-story house that stood on the clifftop. Cherry guessed there was a garden behind it overlooking the water. It was a beautiful place.
“No electric fence?” asked Kes as they drove up outside.
Cherry had noticed that no fence stood around the farming district either, which they had passed on their way.
“No, why would there be?” Evan asked. “Who would want to attack the Leader?”
“Not who,” sa
