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Lina gets the job of a pipe worker and Doon gets the job of messenger. Doon doesn’t want to be a messenger, because it has nothing to do with helping the city (which is falling apart); while Lina wants to be a messenger. Doon and Lina exchange jobs.

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On the first day being a messenger, Lina gets a message form Looper to the Mayor saying "Delivery at Eight"

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Lina goes to buy colored penciled with Poppy at Looper's shop on Night Street, but Poppy manages to escape form the shop. When Lina realizes Poppy's missing the longest- 7 minute blackout occurs.

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After coming back from the town meeting, Lina finds Poppy chewing on a piece of paper that Lina thinks of being instructions telling how to leave Ember. Lina works on deciphering the paper, and asks people to help her, but they all think that its nothing except for Doon.

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Soon after Lina finds the instructions, Lina's grandma starts getting sick and dies. Mrs. Murdo, Lina's neighbor, offers Lina and Poppy to live with her. Lina accepts.

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Lina goes to meet Lizzie one day and finds that Lizzie is carrying rare foods. Lizzie offers Lina some, but goes away quickly. Lina gets curious how Lizzie got all the rare foods, and talks to Lizzie the next day. Lizzie tells Lina that a man named Looper steals from the storerooms and gives some to Lizzie to eat. Lizzie offers Lina to get some things form the storerooms, but Lina refuses, as she thinks that's not fair.

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Doon discovers that the mayor has a secret room in the pipeworks (below the storerooms), filled with rare things. Doon tells Lina and they piece the information from what Lizzie told Lina; concluding that Looper was stealing from the storerooms, and dropping into the secret room below, which the mayor only has access to. Looper also gives some of these things to Lizzie and sells some in his store. Lina and Doon decide to tell the assistant guard about the mayors thievery.

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Lina asks Clary (Lina's father's coworker) to look at the instructions. Clary tells Lina that "egres" is probably "egress", which means "the way out". Lina gets encouraged and tells Doon.

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Doon finds one of the clues/ part of the instruction. Lina and Doon find out a secret room that has tools to help them leave Ember such as candles, matches, and boats- they have to leave through the rapid and dangerous river. The 2 decide to tell everyone about their discovery at the Singing (a holiday) taking place the day after.

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The guards are looking for Doon and Lina for "spreading viscous roomers". Doon warns Lina and they booth hide in the school, where they decide to leave Ember and give a note to Clary telling how to get to the secret room and how to leave Ember. Lina goes to deliver the written message to Clary, but the guards catch her and they take her to the mayor, but she luckily escapes because of a blackout. Lina takes Poppy with her and heads of to the pipeworks.

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Doon is at the pipework secret room when Lina and Poppy arrive. They get onto the boat and at the end of the end of the river they find a path that leads them to a hilltop with trees and birds.