Chapter 20 — Resistance Lives in the North

A serial novel in the form of correspondence among a family while the world as we know it collapses around us. I recommend you start at the Introduction:

https://medium.com/climate-for-change/climate-for-change-introduction-5331d5ab9313

But you can start anywhere you want.

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Chapter 20

Hand-written on scraps of paper (delivered by Charlie):

Dear Family,

Thank you so much for your letters. It means the world to me. Daisy and Jeremy were thrilled to receive letters from their families. Of course, people in my cabin are jealous. I told them that if we could get a list out to my mom, they might be able to get a letter the next time Charlie goes home. What if she had a whole mailbag full? Would it raise suspicion? We will have to figure that out if the moment comes.

I have decided not to try to escape. Instead, we are going to try to undermine the system from within. Jeremy and I held a secret meeting with representatives from the other cabins last night. We brainstormed what we can do. Charlie attended the meeting with three other guards that she trusts. It was scary for some of the guests, but we told them that we would need to trust them in order to do what we want to do.

During the meeting, we talked about how we need to get good information to all of the guards in order to win them over to our side. We also need to re-re-educate…