Chapters 14-16

In Chapter 14, Kira got ready to go to Annabella's, like usual. She asked a woman named Marlena on her way about Jo. She told Kira that Jo had a beautiful voice. "Nobody teached her [the songs Jo sang]. The songs, they just come," she said. "I heard that them songs was full of knowledges."

Kira, mystified, heads to Annabella's, and on the way, Matt tells her that Annabella had been taken to the Fields, where the dead is placed. She was dead when they dragged her. Kira was about to go to Jamison to tell him, but Matt said he was beside Annabella. She then went to the place she was nurtured. She went to where the singing tyke was. She tried to go in, but it was locked. So she instead whispered into the keyhole that she will come back. She did, later, with Thomas. He had carved a key that opened very door in the apartment. Jo quickly became attached to Kira and cried for her mum. She said she was stuffed with everything "they" taught her, and Kira knew that "they" were Jamison and the Council.
Kira, back at her room, realized that Jo, Thomas, and herself, were artists. They were happy when they made beautiful things, but they were forced and stuffed with the things the Council gave them, not free to be happy with whatever they made.