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Lina Mayfleet desperately hopes to get Messenger on Assignment Day, but draws the undesirable Pipeworks Laborer. Doon, however, receives the job Lina wanted and so they trade with each other, Doon wanting to be near the generator located in the Pipeworks.

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Lina finds a metal box, but not before the contents are chewed on by Poppy. Inside is a message with perfect printing, but the letter is full or rips and holes from the damage done by Poppy.

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Lina believes that the message she finds is important in some way, so she begins to decode the missing words and gaps. She tells Doon about the letter and he agrees that it is important, too.

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The message mentions a door in the Pipeworks, so they go into the roped-off Tunnel 351. The door is locked and before the two can try to open it by other means, a figure comes lurching into the tunnel, unlocks the locked room, goes inside, and leaves.

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Lina's grandmother gets a fever and one day, Lina awakes to find her still and lifeless. Poppy and Lina go to live with their next-door neighbor, Mrs. Murdo.

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Doon opens the door in Tunnel 351 and finds cans and boxes of supplies, with the mayor in the middle of it all, eating to his heart's extent. They then tell an officer about the mayor's thievery from the city's citizens.

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Lina and Doon figure out the message bit by bit and then they go to the Pipeworks, climbing down a ladder and through the many tunnels, until they come upon a big room filled with matches, candles, boats, and other supplies. They realize that the way out of Ember is through the river and they plan to tell the rest or the city at the Singing.

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Lina and Doon are at their separate houses when the mayor's guards come looking for them, accusing the children for spreading misleading rumors. Lina brings Poppy and the three get into a boat and set off on the river, finally realizing that nobody else knew anything about the way out of Ember.

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Lina, Doon, and Poppy arrive in a cavern and they get off of the boat. Lina finds a packet with a journal inside, written by one of the first citizens of Ember. It describes how the people of Ember get to their city and about the outside world.

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Lina and Doon follow the instructions and they get to a land where the main source of light during the day is a glowing orb in the sky. They realize that Ember is underground and that they can see the city from above. Doon wraps his jacket around a letter and a rock and drops it, from where is lands in front of Mrs. Murdo in the city of Ember.