Little Brother (Part 7)

     Marcus has gone into the danger zone. He’s told the whole story about being stuck in a prison and what had happened to his friend Darryl to his parents, Darryl’s dad, and a newspaper reporter; Barbara Walters. Marcus had decided to be daring, and I respect his choice, and it’s good that he realizes the danger of the resulting article, if it gets published.

     But things have turned slightly weird and creepy. A girl named Masha, who had been a part of the second secret Internet service, contacts Marcus. Masha tells him that she was originally working for Homeland Security, trying to figure out who, exactly, had founded the Xnet and why. But now she wanted out, and she was escaping with the others and wanted to bring Marcus with her. Marcus, though, wanted to bring Ange with him because they were girlfriend and boyfriend now, and getting really serious.

     Marcus called a huge meeting of people on the Xnet, they were going to all dress up in gothic vampire costumes and run around the Civic Center. That would get the police’s attention so this Masha could get him and Ange away and safe.

     The plan backfires, and they have to leave Ange behind with the other people from the Xnet. Masha takes him ‘captive’ and runs with him to the waiting truck, which would take them away and to the safe place… wherever that was.

     I do not think that Marcus is very intelligent, or does not think things through fully. This Masha could have been someone who could have arrested him, taken him straight to Homeland Security, or killed him on the spot. He never thought the Xnet through either, what he would do if he was caught, what Ange would do. He never thought through refusing to answer the questions that the people at Homeland Security had asked him when he was trapped, either.

     I know now that his loving parents would not stop him from escaping, but that he would go back to get Ange. He’s almost completely forgotten about Van, and Jolu is like a distant memory. This whole thing with the Xnet and the government has placed the rest of his life on hold, making escaping and being free his first and almost only priority.