Story so far
Juliette grows up in the silo, losing her baby brother when she is thirteen and later her mother. Her father says she comes to blame the incubator’s condition and understands that her mother killed herself. She transfers early to Mechanical, teaches herself repairs, and comes to regard its workers as family. An accomplished foreman committed to preventive maintenance, she accepts the sheriff’s post only after securing a power holiday to repair the main generator. She successfully realigns it before going up to a post overshadowed by Jahns’s death. Her earlier work with Holston on the death of her secret lover George has already drawn attention to her abilities.
As sheriff, Juliette investigates Jahns’s death, finds Marnes dead, and pursues the computer material behind Holston’s decision to clean. Her growing closeness to Lukas offers companionship, while Scottie’s help exposes the possibility of fabricated views outside. After her dismissal and Scottie’s apparent suicide, she becomes convinced he was killed and suspects deliberately defective cleaning equipment. Arrested and condemned, she refuses to clean. Her suit’s sound heat tape allows her to cross the hill and discover another silo, where she forces open the airlock and survives its foul but breathable air.
In Silo 17, Juliette finds food, encounters Solo, and learns of other silos and their hidden history. She works to drain its flooded lower levels while maintaining contact with Lukas and her friends. A dive to wire the sump pumps nearly kills her when her air supply fails; she escapes using air trapped beneath stair treads, then cares for the injured Solo. Discovering children living in the farms, she promises to help them. To stop the fighting at home, she repairs a cleaning suit and returns overland. An airlock fire leaves her badly burned, but she survives, mourns Knox and Marck, accepts the elected mayoralty on a condition of truthful government, and begins reconciling with her father. She and Lukas acknowledge their love.
As mayor, Juliette persists in restoring a digger and tunneling to rescue Solo and the children despite political and religious opposition. She also makes a voluntary outside expedition to collect air, soil, and suit samples. Testing suggests that the supposed argon destroys equipment and bodies; she identifies hidden feeds and supply lines and declares an end to cleanings. When lethal vapor enters her silo, she orders people down to Mechanical and through the tunnel. Shirly knocks her out and brings down the tunnel in her place. Juliette survives with a few hundred refugees but mourns Lukas and many others, blaming herself for the disaster.
Charlotte’s radio account exposes the plan to release only one silo and offers hope of a world beyond the poisoned region. Juliette initially prepares an attack on Silo One, carrying dynamite and seeking a final suit. Reuniting with Solo and the children after a fire changes her priority from vengeance to protecting survivors. She uses the server arrangement and recovered schematics to infer Seed’s position from the diggers’ original headings. With farms ravaged and food dwindling, she presents the risks openly and seeks support for an overland escape. She helps prepare shared breathing equipment, and the group reaches grass, blue sky, and breathable air. She recognizes that Charlotte told the truth and that Donald tried to help. At the supply warehouse she urges restraint so future arrivals will have provisions, welcomes Charlotte, and chooses to continue toward the water.
Juliette helps create a coastal refuge and serves for years as mayor with little electoral opposition. She lives in a tree shelter near the beach, spends solitary nights watching the stars, and lets newcomers share their histories when ready. When Elise brings April and Remy, Juliette asks that they be fed and allowed to refresh themselves. April then aims a gun at her; Juliette pushes Elise aside and is shot in the chest. As Elise holds her hand and offers reassurance, Juliette smiles, says things are already okay, closes her eyes, and relaxes her expression.
Appearance
Juliette has brown hair, olive skin, and lean, muscular arms. Severe burns once left extensive sensitive scars; she later reports that several have disappeared.
Role
The coastal village’s mayor, formerly a mechanic, sheriff, and silo mayor, now gravely wounded in the beach shooting.
Relationships
Elise — Juliette helps Elise escape the silos and teaches her hunting vigilance; she pushes Elise aside before being shot, and Elise stays with her afterward.
Charlotte — Charlotte’s account helps Juliette believe in escape; Juliette welcomes her among the survivors.
Lukas — Juliette loves Lukas and grieves his loss, remembering him when she watches the stars.
April — Juliette offers the newcomer food and rest before April shoots her in the chest.
Donald — Juliette initially blames Donald for the destruction, then concludes after escaping that he tried to help.
Sources — 852 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 8
- Juliette works in Mechanical.
- Marnes thinks Juliette prefers to be called Jules.
- Marnes praises Juliette’s help in a death investigation, including her attention to detail and handling of people.
- Marnes believes Juliette rarely travels above the eighties.
- Juliette’s file lists her as a shift foreman with good marks.
- Juliette has no recorded history in the lottery.
- Marnes confirms that Juliette has never married.
- Marnes describes Juliette as someone who prefers being alone despite making a strong impression.
Chapter 9
- According to Jahns’s research, Juliette has kept every vacation chit she has earned.
- Jahns reports that Juliette neither travels out nor receives visitors.
- Dr. Nichols says Juliette was thirteen when her baby brother died.
- Juliette had been due to begin apprenticing with her mother as a delivery nurse the following year.
- Dr. Nichols says Juliette initially blamed the delivery nurse Rhoda for her brother’s death.
- Dr. Nichols says Juliette later blamed the incubator’s poor condition after her mother died.
- Dr. Nichols believes Juliette understood that her mother had killed herself despite the false death certificate.
- Juliette demanded a transfer to Mechanical as an apprentice a year younger than normally permitted.
- Dr. Nichols says Juliette returned for her mother’s funeral, hugged him, and went back down.
- Dr. Nichols predicts that Juliette will refuse the sheriff’s job.
Chapter 10
- Bernard alleges that the preferred sheriff candidate has rerouted IT supplies through improper requisitions.
- Bernard claims the preferred sheriff candidate uses more electricity than her allowance.
Chapter 11
- Jahns regards Juliette as the right person for sheriff.
- Juliette’s father has warned Jahns that his daughter will not accept the position.
Chapter 12
- Juliette Nichols is the mechanic Jahns has come to interview.
- Juliette works on the generator with a wrench nearly as long as she is tall.
- Juliette wears her brown hair in a braid under a hard hat.
- Juliette has lean, muscular arms and olive skin.
- Juliette expected the interview to take place the following morning.
- Juliette tells Marnes that she is sorry about his partner.
- Juliette says a slightly misaligned coupling causes the generator’s vibration.
- Juliette warns that the generator’s vibration can ultimately cause a destructive failure.
- Juliette says she could repair the coupling during a week at half power if the backup generator were available.
- Juliette keeps tightening bolts and adjusting the generator’s speed because the full-power mandate prevents repairs.
- Juliette says the generator’s eventual failure is preventable but cannot predict when it will happen.
- Juliette believes the silo should be maintained to last forever rather than for a current lifetime or term.
- Juliette doubts IT will agree to reduce its power consumption.
- Juliette says she already told Marnes or his secretary not to recruit her because Mechanical needs her.
- Juliette is already working overtime when Jahns and Marnes visit.
- Juliette agrees to find Jahns and Marnes later after finishing work.
Chapter 13
- Marck recalls that Juliette was thirteen and very skinny when she brought her first pump to Walker’s shop.
- Marck says Juliette’s initiation required her to deliver ten heavy pumps for motor respooling.
- Marck says Juliette was expected to move the pumps onto carts and take them up four flights of stairs alone.
- Marck recalls that Juliette finished her pump assignment in six days.
- Marck says Juliette actually moved only one pump upstairs during her initiation.
- Marck recalls that Juliette secretly taught herself to rewire a motor in the tool lock-up.
- Marck confirms that Juliette repeatedly presented the same pump while rewinding the others downstairs herself.
- Shirly recalls that Juliette earned a day off as a shadow.
- Marck says Juliette spent her day off sweeping Walker’s shop and asking how things worked.
Chapter 14
- Juliette initially refuses the sheriff’s job because she believes nobody in Mechanical can replace her.
- Juliette considers the people of Mechanical her family.
- Juliette blames her work schedule for not visiting her father.
- Juliette recalls meeting Holston when he and Marnes investigated George’s death.
- Juliette says she does not know how to be sheriff and only knows how to fix things.
- Juliette learns that the sheriff’s pay exceeds her current earnings, including extra shifts.
- Juliette admits arranging the interception of heat tape intended for IT.
- Juliette says she needed heat tape for a leaking heat exchanger a few months earlier.
- Juliette assures Jahns that all the supplies she diverted were necessary.
- Juliette offers to bring IT some of Mechanical’s spare heat tape as a peace offering.
- Juliette accepts the sheriff’s job on condition that Jahns grants a power holiday.
- Juliette requires a week to sort out the generator before taking up her new job.
- Juliette says she will always consider herself part of Mechanical.
- Juliette has promoted preventive maintenance instead of waiting for machinery to break.
- Juliette partly accepts the sheriff’s job because she has seen the consequences of ignoring problems.
Chapter 15
- Juliette stays in Mechanical to oversee repairs during the power holiday.
- Juliette warns Jahns that the backup generator will make the lights flicker.
- Juliette objects to servers receiving power priority over grow lights.
- Juliette proceeds with realigning the main generator despite IT’s power exemptions.
- Juliette regards accepting IT’s exemptions as weakness rather than political compromise.
Chapter 16
- Juliette insists that Jahns and Marnes call her Jules.
- Jahns and Marnes have secured Juliette as their new sheriff.
Chapter 17
- Juliette builds an optical alignment device using mirrors and narrow slits.
- Juliette aims to align the generator and dynamo to within one thousandth of an inch.
- Juliette has been working eighteen-hour shifts on the refit.
- Juliette originated the generator refit project.
- Juliette considers an extended power holiday preferable to a catastrophic generator failure in later years.
- Juliette reassures herself about difficult repairs by looking at the watch she fixed.
- Juliette fears leaving her friends and family to face politics up top.
- Juliette regards Jahns and Marnes as allies who make her future up top seem manageable.
- Juliette restarts the refurbished generator.
- Juliette initially fails to recognize that the rebuilt generator is running because its starter is louder than the generator.
- Juliette finds little to adjust in the initial temperature and pressure readings after the restart.
- The successful generator refit increases Juliette’s confidence about her future up top.
- Juliette realizes something is wrong when the generator celebration turns into sobbing and disbelief.
Chapter 18
- Juliette is sealed inside the airlock while wearing a suit and helmet.
- Juliette feels lost and trapped between the airlock’s two doors.
- Juliette understands the argon entering the airlock as a sign that her end is approaching.
- Juliette reflects that she has only broken minor laws.
- Juliette reflects that she would have been content to spend her life repairing things deep underground.
- Juliette reflects that she had never cared about the outside.
Chapter 19
- Juliette has spent three days teaching herself to be sheriff.
- Juliette finds the outside wasteland uninspiring and its open space frightening.
- Juliette believes the silo’s future lies underground, where its essential resources originate.
- Juliette works in the holding cell because Marnes’s grief and anger make sharing the office unbearable.
- Juliette read the Law portion of the Pact twice to prepare for becoming sheriff.
- Juliette helped solve the death of her former lover, which appeared to be murder but resulted from unlikely events.
- Juliette had concealed her relationship with her former lover in violation of the Pact.
- Juliette told Holston about her secret relationship after the investigation of her lover’s death ended.
- Juliette treats Jahns’s death as murder.
- Juliette suspects a forbidden love between Marnes and Jahns.
- Juliette puts on the sheriff’s badge after confronting Bernard.
- Juliette sends a request to Mechanical for help investigating Holston’s decision to leave.
- Juliette feels unable to do Holston’s job until she understands why he abandoned it and the silo.
Chapter 20
- Juliette works past ten at night and misses dinner for the third consecutive night.
- Juliette feels she has no one to guide her in learning the sheriff’s job.
- Juliette carries a master key supplied with her new job.
- Juliette’s work reading criminal case files has made her increasingly suspicious of unusual behavior.
- Juliette takes cold stew and juice from the cafeteria kitchen after missing dinner.
- Juliette sees a star for the first time while watching the wallscreen with Lukas.
- Juliette wonders whether collecting information about the outside violates the taboos.
- Juliette intends to ask Marnes about the permissibility of observing the outside.
- Juliette meets Lukas in the cafeteria while he observes stars.
Chapter 21
- Juliette arrives at work before five in the morning after barely more than four hours of sleep.
- Juliette preserves the electrical ties and wrapping from a package for reuse.
- Juliette receives a data drive concealed beneath cookies from home.
- Juliette deletes Scottie’s unsigned message and empties the computer trash to remove the identifying trace.
- Juliette hopes Holston’s computer records will explain his decision to go to cleaning.
- Juliette uses the hours gained by sleeping little to investigate Holston and teach herself her new job.
- Juliette becomes concerned when Marnes has not arrived by ten minutes past eight.
- Juliette goes to Marnes’s apartment to check on him.
- Juliette lifts Marnes to relieve the belt around his neck and frees him from the bathroom door.
- Juliette confirms that Marnes is dead after checking for a pulse.
Chapter 22
- Juliette struggles to work after Marnes’s death.
- Juliette runs a global spell-check on Holston’s data to search for names that might provide clues.
- Juliette arranges for Marnes to be buried near the mayor the following day.
- Juliette believes Marnes and Jahns were secret lovers or comparably close.
- Juliette objects to needing permission from the Pact or a woman’s father to be in love.
- Juliette lies to Lukas that she has never found the right partner.
- Juliette is thirty-four years old.
- Juliette feels less lonely in Lukas’s company.
- Juliette has spent spare time hunting for pretty rocks in the mines.
Chapter 23
- Juliette attends Marnes’s funeral at the upper dirt farm.
- Juliette has been sheriff for less than a week.
- Juliette assigns Peter Billings to handle complaints and radio calls.
- Juliette suspects the strange text on Holston’s computer is encoded and important.
- Juliette sends a copy of the strange computer text to Mechanical for help interpreting it.
- Juliette suspects the same discovery drove both Holston and Allison to seek cleaning.
- Juliette blames herself for failing to anticipate Marnes’s suicide.
- Juliette takes the data drive with her when she leaves to answer Scottie’s request.
- Juliette considers taking Marnes’s gun but leaves it behind.
Chapter 24
- Juliette identifies herself to IT’s gate attendant as Sheriff Nichols.
- Juliette’s ID fails to open the security gate into IT.
- Juliette physically intimidates the IT gate attendant into admitting her.
- Juliette invokes her reporting relationship to Bernard Holland to demand entry into IT.
- Juliette tells Scottie her theory that the computer material caused the last two cleanings as though it were established fact.
- Juliette invents an assurance that Scottie cannot be punished for answering her questions.
- Juliette was formerly Scottie’s shift foreman.
- Juliette realizes that the view shown on the wallscreen could be fabricated.
- Juliette takes Scottie’s printout and believes it must be destroyed.
- Juliette promises to look into transferring Scottie back to Mechanical.
Chapter 25
- Juliette fears her investigation may concern the same thing that led the last two cleaners outside.
- Juliette says she and her father have grown apart.
- Juliette suspects wire messages may be deliberately expensive to discourage communication.
- Juliette recognizes the office address in a suicide alert and fears Scottie has died.
- Juliette imagines Scottie hanged with electrical ties without having seen his body.
- Peter handcuffs Juliette after receiving a private wire identifying her as a suspect.
Chapter 26
- Juliette is detained and has lost her job as sheriff.
- Juliette denies Bernard’s accusations and says an IT worker summoned her.
- Juliette leaves the up top about a week after arriving, wearing oversized Mechanical overalls.
- Juliette doubts that Scottie killed himself.
- Juliette begins to question whether Marnes could have killed himself.
- Juliette considers visiting her father but passes his nursery out of shame.
- Juliette returns to her old room in Mechanical.
- Juliette finds more than a dozen wires waiting in her inbox.
- After reading Scottie’s wire, Juliette becomes convinced he was killed.
- Juliette wonders whether IT can access her wire account.
- Juliette copies Scottie’s entire wire by hand and deletes the electronic message.
Chapter 27
- Juliette visits Walker’s electronics workshop at five to discuss Scottie.
- Juliette asks Walker to keep their discussion secret.
- Juliette tells Walker that she does not believe Scottie killed himself.
- Juliette says she met Scottie at his request earlier on the day he sent his wire.
- Juliette suspects the IT heat tape was deliberately engineered to fail.
- Juliette believes high wire charges are intended to prevent people from exchanging ideas.
- Juliette suspects mechanically skilled people are kept far from IT deliberately.
- Juliette believes there are two secret supply chains producing different sets of parts.
- Juliette suspects IT kills all the cleaners, as well as Scottie.
Chapter 28
- Juliette returns to first-shift work in Mechanical at six.
- Juliette believes Scottie was strangled by someone larger than him or by multiple attackers.
- Juliette considers rallying mechanics against the upper levels but keeps her thoughts to herself.
- Juliette was on the first team to drill below ten thousand feet and discover new oil reserves.
- Juliette believes the unfamiliar animals in the children’s books exist somewhere or existed in the past.
- Juliette develops a plan involving replacement parts to help the next person sent outside.
- Juliette works two full shifts before returning her tools and showering.
- Juliette tells Knox not to intervene in her arrest because she does not want anyone else hurt.
Chapter 29
- Juliette’s escorted journey to the top takes three days because of arrest protocols.
- Juliette tells Lukas to let her go and find someone else.
- Juliette spends the night in the mids without being told the specific reason for her arrest.
- Juliette believes most of the computer evidence presented against her belongs to Holston.
- Juliette believes the verdict against her was decided before the judge heard the charges.
- Juliette resolves to refuse to clean when she is sent outside.
- Juliette leaves the airlock and steps into the outside world.
Chapter 30
- Juliette leaves the outside sensors uncleaned and starts climbing the hill.
- Juliette briefly pauses by the bodies of two other cleaners.
- Juliette climbs to the crest of the hill and disappears from view without collapsing.
Chapter 31
- Juliette is five years old when her parents take her to see the play that inspired her name.
- As a young child, Juliette can count to one hundred.
- Juliette travels to the hundredth landing with her parents as a child.
- Juliette is named after the female character in a play her parents saw when they began dating.
- Juliette enjoys the jugglers who entertain the audience before the play.
- Juliette falls asleep during the play.
- The actress playing Juliette gives the young Juliette an autographed script.
- Young Juliette recognizes her own name in the script she receives.
Chapter 32
- Juliette urged Lukas to find companionship instead of being alone like her.
- Marsh reports that Juliette went outside without cleaning.
- Marsh reports that Juliette went over the hills and disappeared from view.
Chapter 33
- Samson reports that Juliette walked over the hill without cleaning and disappeared from view.
Chapter 34
- Juliette leaves the silo through the partially opened steel doors in her cleaning suit.
- Juliette resists the urge to believe the beautiful landscape projected by her visor.
- Juliette tests her suit wrapping with a wool pad and finds that the heat tape does not flake away.
- Juliette drops the wool pad and leaves the sensors uncleaned.
- Juliette wants to die beyond the hills so Lukas will not have to see her body.
- Juliette reaches the far side of the hill and passes beyond the sensors’ view.
- Juliette has experience clearing drains underwater in flooded basins.
- Juliette realizes that the sensor tower in the next hollow belongs to another silo.
Chapter 35
- Juliette’s possessions include dozens of vacation vouchers.
- Juliette’s notepad contains to-do lists with every item crossed out.
- Lukas remembers Juliette braiding her long hair while studying folders.
Chapter 36
- Juliette discovers hundreds, perhaps thousands, of bodies around the other silo.
- Juliette realizes that people have lived in another silo close to her own without her knowing.
- Juliette concludes that the bodies piled at the other silo’s airlock belonged to people trying to get back inside.
- Juliette removes a corpse wedged in the partially open outer doors.
- Juliette gets stuck between the outer doors with her helmet and torso wedged in the opening.
- Juliette’s frantic breathing while trapped consumes her remaining air.
- Juliette forces her way through the outer doors into the airlock.
- Juliette becomes confused enough to wonder whether she died in her own silo’s airlock.
- Juliette suspects dwindling air and her own exhalations are impairing her thinking.
- Juliette bangs on the inner airlock door hoping a sheriff or cafeteria worker will hear.
- Juliette cannot initially turn the wheel securing the inner door.
- Juliette needs air and hopes to find it inside the silo.
- As a young shadow, Juliette earned a reputation for freeing stuck fasteners.
- Juliette remembers grease, heat, and leverage as ways to free stuck metal.
- Juliette tears loose a corroded pipe that she thinks supplied argon to the airlock.
- Juliette repeatedly bends the loosened pipe until it breaks free at its base.
- Juliette uses the detached pipe as a lever through the door wheel.
- Juliette applies her weight in jerks to free the stuck wheel.
- Juliette finally gets the inner door’s wheel to move.
Chapter 37
- Walker reports that Jules came to him with a theory about the cleaning suits and IT.
- According to Walker, Jules concluded that the heat tape’s deterioration was deliberate.
Chapter 38
- Juliette’s possessions are searched by Bernard and Sims for evidence explaining her survival.
Chapter 39
- Juliette enters the other silo and seals its inner airlock door behind her.
- Juliette grows dizzy as the air in her suit becomes stale.
- Juliette crawls over several bodies in the dark sheriff’s office.
- Juliette forces her way through the barricaded office doorway and shuts it behind her.
- Juliette briefly considers allowing her air to run out, but curiosity keeps her from giving up.
- As a shadow in Mechanical, Juliette habitually dismantled things even when they worked.
- Juliette suspects the intact bodies in the office may belong to people who starved or suffocated.
- Juliette wants to wash possible toxins from her suit before removing her helmet.
- Juliette cannot obtain water from the cafeteria kitchen’s sink or dish-station hose.
- Juliette coats her suit in soup in an uncertain attempt to deal with contamination.
- Juliette uses a kitchen knife to release the catches on her helmet.
- Juliette retches after breathing the air outside her helmet.
- Juliette discovers that the other silo’s foul-smelling air contains enough oxygen to keep her alive.
- Juliette heads toward the illuminated stairwell after removing her helmet.
Chapter 40
- Juliette’s disappearance sparks widespread gossip on the landings.
- Marck believes Juliette is dead.
Chapter 42
- Juliette leaves her soup-covered helmet behind in the cafeteria.
- Juliette experiences a burning throat and itching skin near the top of the unfamiliar silo.
- Juliette cuts herself free of her suit’s outer layers and boots on level two.
- Juliette’s throat burns less as she descends.
- Juliette removes the remaining undersuit and helmet collar on level six.
- Juliette chooses to keep descending because the upper levels feel unsafe to her.
- Juliette hopes that lower mess halls will contain preserved food like the upper kitchen.
- Juliette considers both stored air and a continuing air source as possible explanations for the silo’s breathable atmosphere.
- Juliette initially descends naked with only a chef’s knife.
- Juliette checks level thirteen to compare the unfamiliar silo’s layout with her own.
- Juliette regrets failing to visit her father on recent trips past his nursery.
- Juliette wants to estimate how long the silo has been abandoned from the remaining battery power.
- Juliette fears she may be alone in a dying silo.
- Juliette props open the door to level fourteen with her knife to light her search of the rooms.
- Juliette makes clothing from a purple tablecloth found in a conference room.
- Juliette cuts strips from the tablecloth to make a belt and head covering.
- Juliette remains thirsty and without boots after making clothes.
- Juliette sleeps on landing fifteen after exhaustion nearly makes her collapse.
Chapter 44
- Juliette wakes on the stairwell grating and resumes descending without knowing how long she slept.
- Juliette enters the hydroponic farms on level thirty after hearing machinery inside.
- Juliette’s experience in Mechanical and inside machines helps her see in low light.
- Juliette estimates from the rotted hydroponic plants that their decline occurred neither days nor hundreds of years ago.
- Juliette drinks stale, foul-tasting water directly from a hydroponic pipe.
- Juliette remains afraid of contamination from outside and washes her hands and arms with the pipe water.
- Juliette believes the hydroponic water could sustain her for a long time.
- Juliette considers boiling the water if she can find fuel and start a fire.
- Juliette finds and bites into a not-quite-ripe tomato in the dirt farm.
- Juliette questions how long the dirt farm could survive without human care.
- Juliette mistakes a turnstile bar for an attacker while feeling her way through the dark.
- Juliette plans to return for more food once she has a light.
- Juliette’s fear of dying gives way to fear of losing her sanity.
- Juliette hears someone running down the stairwell after discovering her knife and flask are missing.
Chapter 46
- Juliette pursues the fleeing person because she fears being left isolated among other survivors.
- Juliette breaks the broomstick barricading the door on level thirty-four.
- Juliette forces her way past a filing cabinet used to barricade a heavy metal door.
- Juliette initially mistakes the servers for possible power equipment or batteries.
- Juliette recognizes the machines as servers and realizes she has entered the other silo’s IT department.
- Juliette suffers a cut finger while preventing Solo from closing the floor hatch.
- Juliette bandages her wounded hand with part of her garment.
- Juliette tells Solo she came from another silo.
- Juliette tells Solo that she survived the short journey outside by wearing a suit.
Chapter 48
- Juliette follows Solo into the hidden part of level thirty-five through the server-room floor.
- Juliette’s cut has almost stopped bleeding when she reaches Solo’s home.
- Juliette eats a raw green bean offered by Solo.
- Juliette calculates that Solo has been alone since he was sixteen.
- Juliette confirms that she saw the bodies of those who escaped the silo.
- Juliette doubts Solo’s account of aboveground grain-storage silos.
- Juliette questions whether the vivid photograph Solo shows her might be false.
Chapter 50
- Juliette studies pictures of butterflies but cannot determine how large the animals are.
- Juliette recognizes that Solo’s decades of reading have given him knowledge she lacks.
- Juliette is overwhelmed by the possibility that roughly fifty silos occupy only a tiny part of the world.
- Juliette identifies power lines on Solo’s silo schematic.
- Juliette wonders whether a machine used to excavate a silo could dig between silos.
- Juliette wants to return home despite Solo’s wish that she stay.
- Juliette wants her silo’s residents to learn about the other silos and the space beyond them.
- Juliette realizes that the man who sent her to die already knows the secrets she has discovered.
- Juliette demands every detail of Solo’s communication with another silo because she wants to make a call herself.
Chapter 52
- The voice on line 17 accuses Bernard of sending the caller outside to die.
- The caller threatens to return home and come for Bernard.
Chapter 54
- Marck remembers that Shirly had remained composed even when Juliette was sent to cleaning.
Chapter 55
- Walker remembers sending a message to Supply as a favor for Juliette to test her theory.
Chapter 56
- Juliette repairs a loose wire splice for the pumping system and secures the wires to the railing.
- Juliette and Solo have spent nearly three weeks building a system to pump floodwater into water-treatment tanks.
- Juliette estimates that adding three more pumps would still leave about two years of work to drain the silo.
- Juliette has begun hearing whispers, misplacing things, and finding lights on that she believes she switched off.
- Juliette wonders whether she is losing her sanity or Solo is making her doubt it.
- Juliette worries that pumping out the flood will expose submerged machinery to corrosion before she can preserve it.
- Juliette considers salvaging the backup generator because it would require less work while supplying ample power.
- Juliette refuses to wait two years for the pumps to drain the silo.
- Juliette plans to visit the farms for lunch and Supply for materials before making a private call from the server room.
- Juliette begins her fifth climb to IT in three weeks.
- Juliette feels that the headset’s connection to a living world helps her stay sane.
Chapter 59
- Juliette conserves electricity because she does not know its source and fears it may run out.
- Juliette is living and working in the Suit Lab.
- Juliette compares good seals and washers from Supply with defective ones from the lab to understand the suit system.
- Juliette locks the Suit Lab’s dead bolts every night before sleeping.
- Juliette has taught Solo to bake flatbread.
- Juliette plans to breathe underwater so she can work on the pumps at the bottom of the silo.
- Juliette intends to bring electricity from IT down to the submerged sump pumps.
- Juliette estimates that restoring the sump pumps could drain the silo in weeks or months instead of years.
- Juliette plans to install a portable deputy radio in her suit helmet to communicate with Solo.
- Juliette feels at home talking to Lukas behind an empty server.
- Juliette thinks Solo is worried about her underwater plan despite his denial.
Chapter 60
- Juliette says she has made roughly six trips between the thirties and Supply in the past week.
- Juliette urges Lukas to kill Bernard.
- Juliette insists that she did nothing wrong to deserve being sent away.
- Juliette argues that her people had reasons to act and that Lukas is in a position to help.
- Juliette tells Lukas that their actions after fate places them in a situation are what they control.
- Juliette plans to test her suit and warns Lukas that she may not call for a day or so if it works.
Chapter 62
- Juliette experiences unexpected dread when she puts on the cleaning suit for her dive.
- Juliette plans to restart the large pumps to send the floodwater through the concrete walls into the surrounding earth.
- Juliette regards diverting the flood into the treatment plant as only a temporary solution.
- Juliette thinks the danger of slowly going mad outweighs the risk of diving.
- Juliette feels connected to home through Lukas.
- Juliette starts her dive from four levels above Mechanical.
- Juliette panics as Solo helps her weighted legs over the railing into the water.
- Juliette begins descending along the rope into the flooded stairwell.
Chapter 63
- Lukas recalls something Juliette repeatedly tells him while considering the difference between the past and the Legacy.
Chapter 64
- Juliette descends through the flooded staircase toward Mechanical in a diving suit.
- Juliette believes cutting her boot weights free would allow her to float back to the surface.
- Juliette sees a bloated corpse beyond the damaged entrance to level 139.
- Juliette wants to return home to stop the fighting.
- Juliette dreams of using a repaired digger to tunnel into silo eighteen’s down deep.
- Juliette hopes to break the blockade and bring her people into the restored neighboring silo.
- Juliette struggles to climb over Mechanical’s security turnstile because her boots are too heavily weighted.
- Juliette descends six more floors before friction makes the hose and wire difficult to pull.
- Juliette attaches the new positive power wire to the sump pump.
- Juliette notices that fresh air has stopped entering her helmet while she tightens the positive terminal.
- Juliette cannot loosen the pump’s negative terminal.
- Juliette improvises a connection by putting the black wire into a cowling vent and securing it around a bolt.
- Juliette loses the remaining pressure in her diving suit.
Chapter 65
- Juliette’s radio call to Solo is heard by Shirly and Walker.
Chapter 66
- Juliette confirms that the air hose has lost its pressure.
- Juliette fears Solo has stopped the compressor to refuel it and will not know how to restart it.
- Juliette has only the air trapped in her suit and hose left to breathe.
- Juliette leaves the sump pump without securing the loose power wires against vibration or accidental pulls.
- Juliette cannot reach the Velcro straps holding her leg weights.
- Juliette uses her knife to cut the first exercise weight loose.
- Juliette cuts the second weight free while trying to avoid puncturing her suit.
- Juliette rises feet first and strikes her helmet against overhead pipes after removing the weights.
- Juliette loses her flashlight and is left in complete darkness.
- Juliette becomes disoriented while trapped against the ceiling.
- Juliette fears that her air hose may have been cut on the staircase.
- Juliette pulls in the slack air hose until she finds a taut section leading toward the exit.
- Juliette uses the air hose to pull herself through the flooded corridor in darkness.
Chapter 67
- Lukas longs to speak with Juliette after the formal appointment conversation.
Chapter 68
- Juliette’s voice is heard over the radio asking Solo to respond.
- Walker and Shirly recognize Juliette’s voice and conclude she survived her cleaning.
Chapter 69
- Juliette strikes her nose against the inside of her helmet when she collides with submerged stairs.
- Juliette follows the deflated air hose toward safety after it stops supplying air.
- Juliette exhausts the breathable air left in her suit while escaping the flooded lower levels.
- Juliette tries unsuccessfully to reach Solo over the radio during her escape.
- The rope Juliette reaches in the stairwell comes loose when she pulls on it.
- Juliette uses her knife to release her helmet as suffocation overwhelms her judgment.
- Juliette begins sinking after water floods her opened suit.
- Juliette grabs the air hose to stop her descent after losing her helmet.
- Juliette discovers breathable air trapped beneath the submerged stair treads.
- Juliette climbs toward the surface by breathing from air pockets under successive stair treads.
- Juliette reaches the surface through a layer of oil and gas.
- Juliette survives the dive but emerges shivering, numb, and struggling to breathe.
- Juliette initially asks the injured Solo for help getting out of her freezing suit.
- Juliette recognizes Solo’s serious injuries and urges him to remain still.
Chapter 71
- Walker believes he may be able to speak to Juliette using the modified transmitters.
Chapter 72
- Juliette cuts herself out of her flooded suit while dangerously cold.
- Juliette initially cannot tell whether Solo has a pulse because her fingers are too cold.
- Juliette recognizes that falling asleep in the cold would kill her.
- Juliette uses her knife to loosen the fuel-can cap because her hands cannot grip it.
- Juliette pours fuel over the compressor to make a fire for warmth.
- Juliette decides she never wants to depend on the compressor for air again.
- Juliette strips off her wet clothing and warms herself beside the burning compressor.
- Juliette fears being trapped between other survivors and the freezing floodwater.
- Juliette puts on the less-wet undersuit as the fire burns out.
- Juliette discovers that Solo is alive when she feels a weak pulse in his neck.
- Juliette uses water squeezed from her wet undersuit to moisten Solo’s lips and examine his head wound.
- Juliette wants to take Solo upward to warmth so they can clean his wound and dry her clothing.
Chapter 73
- Juliette’s official records show no sanctioned relationship, according to Lukas’s earlier check.
- Juliette is thirty-four years old.
- Juliette’s poem to George describes a hidden love.
- Lukas recalls rumors that Juliette’s help on an earlier case contributed to her selection as sheriff.
Chapter 74
- Juliette is exhausted and chilled after her swim, with her black undersuit still wet.
- Juliette helps the injured Solo climb the stairs.
- Juliette refuses to leave Solo behind when he asks her to continue without him.
- Juliette changes their immediate destination to the lower farms for food, water, and dry clothing.
- Juliette has not switched on the new pump she wired and does not know whether it will work.
- Juliette plans to reach the mids deputy station the next day to obtain weapons and recover.
- Juliette turns on the lower farm’s grow lights by adjusting a makeshift timer.
- Juliette collects drinking water from the circulation pump’s drain plug.
- Juliette finds a cultivated section of the farm that indicates other survivors are living there.
- Juliette is struck in the shoulder with a wrench when she tries a locked door.
- Juliette cuts her attacker’s leg with her knife.
- Juliette realizes her attacker is a boy she estimates to be fourteen or fifteen.
- Juliette concludes that Solo described the young attacker as his own age because Solo still sees himself as the child he was when left alone.
- Juliette recovers her stolen gear bag from the children’s room.
- Juliette decides to take the children home with her and Solo.
- Juliette associates the attack with the noise from her machinery after Rickson demands that she take it away.
- Juliette has an implant beneath the skin near her hip.
- Juliette tells the young mother that she previously worked caring for newborns.
- Juliette puts down her knife before approaching the young mother and baby.
Chapter 75
- Juliette tells Walker that she is in another silo.
- Juliette says she already knows about the fighting in Mechanical.
- Juliette urges Shirly to stop the exhaust diversion because the cooling vents serve the servers.
- Juliette says the silo she occupies has the same layout as her home silo.
- Juliette tells her friends that she has only one man and some children with her and cannot provide help.
- Juliette pleads with her friends to stop the fighting and not let it continue because of her.
- Juliette urgently asks Walker for a way to speak to the deputies Peter and Hank.
Chapter 76
- Lukas knows Juliette is alive and wonders why she has not called for so long.
Chapter 77
- Juliette cannot reestablish portable radio contact with Walker and Shirly after hearing gunfire during her last contact.
- Juliette anticipates becoming a mother figure to the surviving orphans.
- Juliette leaves Solo and the children to hurry ahead and contact her friends.
- Juliette suspects her underwater ordeal may have damaged her lungs.
- Juliette has a birth-control implant under the skin of her hip.
- Juliette concludes that costly messages, silo architecture, job colors, and divisions between residents were deliberately designed.
- Juliette reaches level thirty-four in a state of extreme exhaustion.
- Juliette cuts the hinges and bends aside the cage protecting the radio beneath the servers.
- Juliette selects channel eighteen on the caged radio to call home.
- Juliette reaches Bernard instead of Walker or Shirly.
- Juliette asks Bernard to stop the fighting.
Chapter 78
- Lukas hears Juliette and Bernard expose forbidden secrets over the radio.
Chapter 79
- Juliette wakes exhausted on the floor beside Solo’s desk.
- Juliette selects a small cleaning suit to make passage through the airlock easier.
- Juliette will travel without a radio because she lacks time to make another suit switch.
- Juliette replaces deliberately weak cleaning-suit components with better parts from Supply.
- Juliette intends to reach her home silo when its doors open for a cleaning in six or seven hours.
- Juliette believes most of her people are too frightened to take sides in the fighting.
- Juliette hopes her return alive will win enough popular support to make the fighting pointless.
- Juliette promises to return for Solo and the other survivors.
- Juliette stops the children below level three because she worries about the air higher up.
- Juliette delays putting on her helmet for another flight of stairs to conserve air.
Chapter 80
- Juliette leaves the neighboring silo and navigates by walking away from the distant ruined city.
- Juliette sees fifty evenly spaced depressions matching the silo schematic.
- Juliette realizes other silos may contain people living ordinary lives nearby.
- Juliette recognizes that she has concealed her love for Lukas even from herself.
- Juliette reaches her home silo’s ramp before the cleaning begins.
- Juliette has not brought enough air for a return trip.
- Juliette enters silo eighteen through the opening airlock doors amid a blast of argon.
- Juliette initially mistakes the kneeling cleaner for Lukas.
- Juliette covers herself and the cleaner with the heat-tape blanket as the flames start.
- Juliette tries to stop the cleaner from escaping the protective blanket.
- Juliette suffers widespread burns while sheltering alone beneath the blanket.
- Juliette survives the airlock fire until its fuel runs out.
- Juliette discovers that the dead cleaner is not Lukas.
Chapter 81
- Juliette is rescued from the airlock and has her melted suit cut away.
- Juliette has severe burns across her body.
- Painkillers repeatedly cloud Juliette’s awareness during her recovery.
- Juliette receives many notes from down deep while visitors from there are prohibited.
- Juliette prefers enduring some pain to having her mind dulled by medication.
- Juliette repeatedly reads the notes to work out who has survived.
- Juliette mourns Knox and Marck.
- Juliette is forbidden to see Shirly despite wanting to visit her.
- Juliette repeatedly thanks Peter for his decision.
Chapter 82
- Juliette is still recovering from painful wounds and raised scars weeks after her return.
- Juliette has medical permission to travel down the silo.
- Juliette learns that residents voted for her to become mayor after her return.
- Juliette makes truthful government a condition of accepting the mayoralty.
- Juliette wants residents to understand the threats facing them and act from knowledge.
- Juliette vows to spread the truth whether she joins the leadership or opposes it.
- Juliette agrees to avoid rash action until she meets Peter and Lukas again.
- Juliette returns Lukas’s kiss.
- Juliette chooses to visit her father before going down to see her friends.
Chapter 84
- Solo expects Juliette to be especially excited by the news that the water is receding.
Chapter 146
- The attendants report that a female cleaner from Silo Eighteen passed over the hill and contact was lost.
- The attendants do not know how the cleaner made it out of sight.
Chapter 150
- The female cleaner from silo eighteen walks out of camera view over a hill.
- A staff member reports that the cleaner was heading toward silo seventeen.
- Silo eighteen reports that the cleaner’s suit was modified, leaving its possible endurance uncertain.
Chapter 151
- Eren reports that the female cleaner may have been a sheriff, though he doubts the report.
- Donald says the female cleaner is the first person to get out of sight during a cleaning.
Chapter 160
- The missing cleaner has a dossier two inches thick.
Chapter 161
- Juliette’s file describes her as a cleaner who briefly served as sheriff.
- Juliette was a mechanic from the lower levels before being recruited as sheriff.
- A report describes Juliette’s refusal to clean and her walk out of sight.
Chapter 167
- Donald wonders whether his past efforts to save Silo Eighteen helped bring about the trouble involving the wandering cleaner.
Chapter 189
- A woman follows Solo to the grate above his hiding place.
- The woman tries to calm Solo after he swipes at her with a knife.
- The woman is hurt but does not want to hurt Solo.
- The woman asks Solo his name and is visibly happy to see him.
Chapter 190
- Juliette is now a mayor and says she is not used to the role.
- Juliette is the woman who was sent to clean.
- Juliette does not believe Donald’s claim that he saved her silo.
- Juliette rejects Donald’s claim to understand what she has seen.
- Juliette says she has seen the books and intends to uncover what Donald’s people have done.
- Juliette warns that she does not want Donald to hear her people coming as they dig.
Chapter 193
- The mayor is away working on an undisclosed project.
- According to Lukas, the mayor distrusts the caller and doubts that the same person speaks on every call.
Chapter 194
- Juliette operates an excavator to break through the concrete outer wall of Silo 18.
- Juliette blames herself for the deaths of mechanics and miners in the fighting that followed her refusal to clean.
- Juliette wonders whether the watching miners blame her for losing people they loved.
- Juliette has used a blowtorch to cut through the first exposed row of reinforcing bars.
- Juliette persists in digging because she has seen a schematic and knows other silos exist.
- Juliette fears that stopping the excavation again will give others an opportunity to prevent her from continuing.
- Juliette resents the expectations placed on her as mayor.
- Juliette shuts off the excavator when it begins running dangerously after the breakthrough.
- After breaking through the wall, Juliette asks for a cutting torch and a flashlight.
Chapter 195
- Juliette reassures Raph that he can breathe because the opening leads into another room.
- Juliette wants to enlarge the opening and determine whether the buried machine can be salvaged.
- Juliette orders the workers to connect many smaller holes so they can remove entire sections of the wall.
- Juliette calls for the second excavator and miners with picks to widen the opening.
- Juliette forbids blasting to avoid damaging the machine beyond the wall.
- Juliette leaves Dawson in charge of the excavation.
- Juliette blames herself for the death of Shirly’s husband.
- Juliette believes showing others the world beyond the silo will overcome their fear of the excavation.
Chapter 196
- Juliette is the first to crawl through the opening beyond the generator room.
- Juliette initially doubts she can restore the buried machine because of its enormous size.
- Juliette suspects the people who built the buried machine also built the ruined towers beyond the hills.
- Juliette believes the machine was deliberately preserved for a purpose she does not yet understand.
- Juliette recognizes that the digger’s engine mounts are familiar from aligning the main generator.
- Juliette says she understands why the digger was placed beside the generator room.
Chapter 197
- Juliette says Lukas vetoed her walking over the hills to rescue her friends.
- Juliette insists that her rescue effort is for her friends’ sake, not to prove her account of the outside world.
- Juliette believes the isolated man and children she wants to rescue need medical help.
- Juliette feels bound by her promise to rescue her friends.
- Juliette did not want to become mayor.
- Juliette asks for a few days to determine whether digging is feasible before returning to her mayoral duties.
- Juliette agrees to keep further digging quiet.
- Juliette plans a power holiday to reduce the main generator’s load.
- Juliette plans to stay up top for a while once the work in Mechanical is underway.
- Juliette intends to investigate what lies beyond the silo, beyond rescuing her friends.
Chapter 198
- Juliette has told Jimmy he can return to his silo and live with people who move there.
- Elise calls Juliette Jewel when asking when she will come for them.
Chapter 199
- Juliette has left an electrical cable and hose leading to the pumps.
- Juliette tells Jimmy that someone must switch the pump on and off as water continues to seep in.
- Juliette warns Jimmy that running the pump dry would burn its impeller.
Chapter 200
- Juliette wins the argument with Shirly over taking the backup generator.
- Juliette remembers that she struggled for a year after George died.
- Juliette has resumed speaking to her father after almost twenty years of avoidance.
- Juliette proposes steering the digger with iron wedges against the tunnel wall.
- Juliette orders thirty-six beams and seventy-two risers for the excavation.
- Juliette plans to go upstairs and make the rounds instead of supervising the generator installation.
- Juliette believes her presence below is causing unrest.
- Juliette regards the tunnel as the beginning of a larger undertaking.
Chapter 201
- Juliette doubts reports that Walker left his workshop during the uprising because she did not witness it.
- Juliette has another project in mind that she expects to be less popular than the excavation.
- Juliette has not told Lukas or Sheriff Billings about her other project.
- Juliette wants to tell Solo that digging is nearly underway and confirm that his silo’s flooding is under control.
- Juliette worries that rust will damage the newly drained Mechanical levels before her team can salvage them.
- Juliette leaves Mechanical with twenty chits, although people rarely accept payment from her as mayor.
- Juliette sees her tunneling plans turning public hope into fear.
- Juliette embraces Hank when they meet for the first time since her return.
- Juliette tells Hank that she plans to work from her office for a week or two and visit the other deputy stations.
- Juliette is expected at the mids farms by lights out to ceremonially plant the first crop in new soil.
- Juliette asks Hank to watch the stairwell for trouble while she tries to soothe discontent above.
- Juliette expects trouble and offers to fund one or two apprentices for Hank.
Chapter 202
- Juliette encounters hostile looks from people leaving the church on level ninety-nine.
- Juliette expects to spend a few weeks catching up on her mayoral work before returning down the silo.
- Juliette does not write the official birth and death announcements issued in her name.
- Juliette identifies the gods she worships as the men and women who built the silos.
- Juliette says the silo builders protected people from a world they themselves destroyed.
- Juliette believes the silo builders intended people to become free and left them the means to do so.
- Juliette intends to use the digging machine despite Father Wendel’s objections.
- Juliette offers to show Father Wendel books to support her account of the world.
Chapter 203
- Juliette participates in a ceremonial planting at the mids farm before continuing upward.
- Juliette imagines taking residents through Mechanical and a connecting tunnel to see the other silo for themselves.
- Juliette confirms that she intends to register her relationship with Lukas.
- Juliette remembers the pain caused by previously hiding a love relationship from the Pact and resolves not to repeat that mistake.
- Juliette wants help from Lukas’s department for an unspecified project up top intended to show people the truth.
- Juliette dislikes being seen naked because of her scars.
- Juliette’s scars are intensely sensitive to touch.
- Juliette examines both arms in the mirror after Lukas says a scar has disappeared.
Chapter 204
- Donald describes Juliette as someone who survived being sent out to clean and returned from outside.
- Charlotte suspects Donald is emotionally affected by his conversations with Juliette.
Chapter 206
- Juliette is building suits with Nelson for a purpose other than cleaning.
- Juliette proposes suspending the lottery in anticipation of gaining space in the other silo.
- Juliette intends to take people to the other silo to restore it to working order.
- Juliette wants to finish the suit project before the excavation reaches the other silo.
- Juliette has been welding in the airlock at night and working in the Suit Lab or behind the communications hub by day.
- Juliette sometimes sleeps on a cot in the Suit Lab when she and Lukas disagree or she wants solitude.
- Juliette has heard that people are considering another vote on the mayoralty.
- Juliette hopes her project will produce answers that persuade people to believe her.
- Juliette agrees to attend the town hall after Lukas pleads with her.
Chapter 207
- Juliette considers the books’ accounts of historical liberators becoming tyrants to be myths.
- Juliette argues that rebuilding after an uprising is harder than destroying an unjust order.
- Juliette uses the devastated landscape outside to challenge Lukas’s belief that humanity learns from its mistakes.
- Juliette requires Lukas to preserve Donald’s mistaken belief that the excavation is heading toward his silo.
- Juliette conceals her plans to rescue her friends in Silo 17.
- Juliette believes Donald’s opposition to the excavation comes from fear for his own life.
Chapter 208
- Juliette attends her first Town Hall as mayor.
- Juliette believes Peter Billings has met a romantic partner after seeing him exchange greetings with a woman.
- A mother at the meeting blames Juliette’s return for her baby’s fever.
- Juliette tells the crowd that everything they have been told about the outside world is fabricated.
- Juliette proposes an expedition to collect outside air for testing.
- Juliette is taken into the judge’s chambers when the crowd becomes threatening.
- Juliette resents Peter and Lukas for making her mayor.
- Juliette vows to end cleanings while she is mayor.
- Juliette insists on going outside despite her father’s objection.
- Juliette invites her father to serve as the expedition’s doctor.
- Juliette’s suit collar left a hook-shaped scar on her neck during the fire.
- Juliette says her father is her only remaining family.
- Juliette asks her father whether scars can disappear while examining marks on her wrist.
Chapter 211
- According to Courtnee, Juliette has gone outside.
Chapter 212
- Juliette voluntarily leaves Silo 18 in a cleaning suit to investigate the outside world.
- Juliette collects inert argon in the airlock as a reference sample.
- Juliette exposes her first outside-air sample container for ten counts.
- Juliette collects a surface-soil sample away from the ramp and sensor tower.
- Juliette extracts a deep-soil sample using her corkscrew tool.
- Juliette accidentally exposes the second outside-air sample longer than intended, possibly twice the planned duration.
- Juliette orders spectators evacuated to at least level four after learning of strange airlock readings.
- Juliette hopes to install a permanent sensor array on the tower during a future outing.
- Juliette chooses Jack Brent’s body for sampling chiefly because she knows little about him.
- Juliette cuts a patch from Jack Brent’s outer suit for the final sample.
- Juliette also samples Jack Brent’s rotted undersuit, uncertain whether any flesh is included.
- Juliette leaves the sampling blade beside Jack Brent’s body to avoid further risky handling in her gloves.
Chapter 213
- Juliette reenters the airlock from outside as pressurized argon spills through the opening.
- Juliette locks her sample pouches and soil borer inside an airtight box before decontamination.
- Juliette’s immersion in the decontamination tub triggers fearful memories of being underwater.
- Juliette holds herself underwater against her suit’s buoyancy during the airlock burn.
- Juliette slips onto the door jamb while rushing into the inner airlock and is pulled through by the suited attendants.
- Juliette discovers that Lukas is wearing the suit she thought contained Sophia.
- Juliette believes the return procedure has succeeded without burns, hospitalization, or contamination.
- Juliette feels both happiness and guilt on learning the dig has broken through while she was occupied up top.
- Juliette hopes the collected samples will yield answers worth the risks of the expedition.
Chapter 214
- Jimmy recognizes that Juliette has kept her promise to obtain help for him.
- Jimmy has been told that Juliette is up top when he arrives.
Chapter 215
- Dr. Nichols says Juliette sent him to care for the visitors’ health.
Chapter 216
- Walker says Juliette went outside to see what was there.
- Juliette tells Jimmy a home is being prepared for the children near the farms.
- Juliette expects to finish her current project within a few days before visiting Jimmy.
- Juliette says she sent her father to examine Jimmy and the children.
- Courtnee reports that Juliette intends to see Jimmy at his new home by the lower farms within a day or two.
Chapter 217
- Juliette retrieves the outside samples from the airlock after more than an hour of decontamination work.
- Juliette promises to remove the inner airlock eventually but expects further outside excursions first.
- Juliette insists that the sample examination take precautions against a single container poisoning the entire silo.
- Juliette measures air toxicity by comparing deterioration of cleaning equipment with more durable Supply materials.
- Juliette concludes that the equipment from the cleaning suit storage bays is designed to fail.
- Juliette initially suspects that her sample collection mistakes explain the unexpectedly greater damage in the ramp sample.
- Juliette questions the source and identity of the supposed argon after examining the control sample.
Chapter 218
- Juliette tells Donald she has collected samples from the outside world.
- Juliette concludes that cleaning airlocks are filled with something that destroys suit components and then human bodies.
- Juliette says she found and cut the hidden camera feeds weeks earlier.
- Juliette suspects that incoming pipes deliver the destructive gas.
- Juliette orders Donald to stop calling Silo 18.
- Juliette declares that she will cut off the external cameras, power, and gas.
- Juliette declares that no one from her silo will ever be sent to clean again.
- Juliette intends to use clean air on her next trip outside.
Chapter 220
- Juliette previously cut camera-feed wires after tracing them through a sealed port at the silo wall.
- Juliette suspects that the supposed underground argon supply system does nothing.
- Juliette discovers two additional lines feeding the gas tanks behind their panels.
- Juliette decides to go down to Supply after hearing about the attack on the children.
- Juliette tells her father to take the survivors back to Mechanical.
- Juliette regrets bringing the survivors into her silo.
Chapter 222
- Juliette mobilizes porters to search for Elise while heading down the silo.
- Juliette initially tells Elise she cannot keep Puppy because dogs are dangerous.
- Juliette postpones resolving Puppy’s ownership so the group can catch up with the others.
- Juliette blames herself for Marcus’s death.
- Juliette suspects the mob that overran Mechanical is the group involved in Marcus’s death.
- Juliette admits she may have authorized the planning committee to inspect the dig.
- Juliette promises Jimmy that she still intends to rebuild his silo.
- Juliette acknowledges that she may have described the extra silo as providing redundancies.
Chapter 225
- Juliette has left the children with her father.
- Juliette is heading to Walker’s to obtain a battery.
- Juliette urges Lukas to calm down and explain the unexpected call.
Chapter 226
- Juliette is in Mechanical when reports of vapor leaks arrive.
- Juliette orders Peter to leave the airlock area and seal the cafeteria door.
- Juliette tells Peter to keep the approaching crowd away from the airlock.
- Juliette suspects the vapor is argon.
- Juliette believes the man in Silo 1 has carried out his threats and is poisoning the silo.
Chapter 227
- Juliette tells Lukas to abandon radio contact and seal himself in the pantry.
- Juliette decides to save as many people as she can.
- Juliette orders Hank to bring everyone he can down to Mechanical immediately.
- Juliette believes there is no time to seal Mechanical against the threat.
- Juliette orders Courtnee to send the children back to their silo.
- Juliette directs evacuees through Mechanical toward the other silo.
- Juliette loses radio contact with Peter after his report that people are falling over.
Chapter 228
- Juliette is the last evacuee to enter Mechanical from the stairwell.
- Juliette helps free someone buried by displaced tunnel rubble.
- Juliette plans to seal the dig against the outside air descending the stairwell.
- Juliette asks Shirly to look after the survivors, including Solo and the children.
- Juliette intends to wait until the last evacuees have passed through.
- Juliette loses consciousness after Shirly punches her jaw.
- After hearing an explosion, Juliette concludes that Shirly has detonated the charges in her place.
- Juliette repeatedly urges Lukas to seal himself in the pantry.
Chapter 229
- Charlotte believes the woman directing people toward the bottom levels is the rogue mayor her brother described, but is not certain.
- The woman heard on the radio calls for everyone to go to the bottom levels.
Chapter 232
- Juliette identifies herself to the people speaking on channel 17.
- Juliette reports that Shirly is dead.
- Juliette says everyone is dead and blames herself for killing them all.
Chapter 233
- Juliette wakes on damp steel flooring with her father examining her.
- Juliette remembers her silo being shut down and blames herself for the deaths.
- Juliette recognizes her surroundings as the pump facility beside the generator room.
- Juliette recalls previously swimming past the pump facility in a cleaning suit.
- Juliette warns that reopening the tunnel will kill everyone on their side.
- Juliette believes the few hundred refugees may be all that remain of her people.
- Juliette gets up against her father’s advice to stop the digging.
- Juliette tries to comfort the sobbing pump repairman Jomeson.
Chapter 234
- Juliette repeatedly tries to reach Lukas by radio after the nighttime transmission but receives only static.
- Juliette decides against calling channel 1 because she wants to conceal that some of her people survived.
- Juliette believes that reconnecting the silos will expose the survivors to the substance that destroyed their home.
- Juliette connects the descending white mist with the poisoning of the outside air.
- Juliette worries that torches and hundreds of refugees are consuming more oxygen than Silo 17’s farms can replace.
- Juliette tells Courtnee that Shirly saved them by bringing down the tunnel roof.
- Juliette suspects that her digging or her trip outside prompted the poisoning of her silo.
- Juliette says there are fifty silos like their own.
- Juliette considers digging toward another silo but says they must first learn whether it is safe.
- Juliette requests a day or two to determine what happened.
- Juliette believes the silo claiming authority carried out its threat to end her silo with a button.
- Juliette believes the same people also destroyed Silo 17.
- Juliette offers to accept being sent to clean after explaining what the survivors need to know.
- Juliette urges the refugees to power the pumps and sustain the farms, lights, and breathable air.
- Juliette argues that they should act against those responsible to prevent further silo destructions.
Chapter 235
- Elise remembers Juliette improving their home and taking them somewhere with steady light and hot bathwater.
Chapter 236
- Charlotte heard Juliette say over the radio that everyone was dead.
- The man answering Charlotte’s call says Juliette is absent and that he thought she was down in Mechanical.
Chapter 239
- Juliette tells Tom she is in Mechanical and orders him to stay where he is.
- Juliette switches her conversation with Charlotte to channel eighteen.
- Juliette initially blames Donald for destroying her home and wants to kill him to prevent another attack.
- Juliette says Donald warned her that he could end her silo by pressing a button.
- Juliette accuses the people controlling the silos of poisoning the air and exploiting fear to make residents send others out to clean.
- Juliette says the false blue skies shown to exiles are a means of making them clean.
- Juliette fears that her people will blame her and send her to a fatal cleaning.
- Juliette wants to believe Charlotte because someone close to her believed Donald was trying to help.
- Juliette says that both men she has loved are dead.
- Juliette says she hoped tunneling to the other silo would improve things but believes it made matters worse.
Chapter 240
- Juliette grieves for Lukas and for Peter, Marsha, and Nelson.
- Juliette believes that everyone she had come to know in IT is gone.
- Juliette intends to travel overland to Silo 1 in a modified suit.
- Juliette plans to blast open Silo 1’s door to expose the people she blames for the disaster to the outside.
- Juliette estimates the airlock doors are three to four inches thick.
- Juliette offers to contact other silos to ask whether they will shelter the survivors.
- Juliette warns that other silo heads work for the people she blames and may kill the refugees.
- Juliette suggests that staying in the damaged silo may be safer than entering another one uninvited.
- Juliette accepts Raph’s decision to accompany her.
- Juliette plans to visit Courtnee, her father, and friends at the farms before leaving.
- Juliette promises to send Erik a radio and charger so she can report any silo willing to take them in.
Chapter 241
- Juliette keeps her plans secret from Court and her father.
- Juliette considers the children the nearest thing she will ever have to children of her own.
- Juliette asks her father to help Solo look after the children when she is absent.
- Juliette plans to collect a charger and possibly another radio at the deputy station.
- Juliette hopes to reach the cleaning lab that night to assemble one last suit.
- Juliette expects a dispute because she believes Raph assumes he will accompany her the whole way.
- Juliette suspects cleanings were intended to maintain the poisoning of the outside air.
Chapter 242
- Juliette and Jimmy had fixed rubber hoses to the wall to carry away floodwater.
Chapter 243
- While under pressure to sign, Elise wishes Jewel were with her.
Chapter 244
- Juliette repeatedly calls for Charlotte to respond after Darcy interrupts their radio conversation.
Chapter 246
- Juliette and Raph fail to find a replacement radio or spare battery at the lower deputy station.
- Juliette finds Father Wendel crying in an unlocked holding cell.
- Juliette intends to find a better destination for the group planning another tunnel.
- Juliette’s anger at Wendel is replaced by guilt because she believes his people’s fears were justified.
- Juliette urges Wendel to guide the survivors because she plans to confront those responsible for their suffering.
- Juliette carries dynamite that could otherwise have helped the tunnel excavation.
- Juliette warns Hank that keeping every farm light on risks a fire or a prolonged power failure.
- Juliette plans to catch up with Solo and the children.
- Juliette asks Hank to reduce the lighting load and move people toward the Mids farms.
Chapter 248
- Juliette carries explosives as she climbs with Raph, determined to stop the destruction of silos from happening again.
- Juliette tells Raph their destination is level thirty-four.
- Juliette waits for Raph rather than continuing the climb alone.
- Juliette mourns Lukas and believes she will never see him again.
- Juliette and Raph gather produce from the second mids farm to supply a few meals.
- Juliette intends to use the facilities on level thirty-four to build one last suit.
- Juliette recognizes that she is fleeing the sight of friends she feels she has failed as well as seeking vengeance.
- Juliette descends into Solo’s smoke-filled hiding place despite Raph’s warning.
- Juliette tries to smother burning books with Solo’s bedding.
- Juliette fights a young priest while trying to put out the fire.
- Juliette is trapped beneath the young priest when his robes catch fire.
- Juliette believes the radio in Solo’s hiding place has been lost to the fire.
Chapter 251
- Juliette recognizes that the server layout can replace the lost map of the silos.
- Juliette infers that the diggers were originally aimed at a destination beyond the neighboring silos.
- Juliette proposes locating Seed by projecting the original headings of two diggers until their routes intersect.
- Juliette proposes using the digger’s fuel capacity to check the distance to the inferred destination.
- Reuniting with Solo and the children makes Juliette put protecting survivors ahead of vengeance.
- Juliette calls for a meeting of all survivors to decide whether to remain hidden or leave.
- Juliette thinks digging would take too long given the ruined farms.
- Juliette decides to hold the survivors’ meeting in the server room and reveal it to everyone.
- Juliette leads the dismantling and toppling of servers to clear space for the meeting.
- Juliette retrieves intact schematics from the room beyond the fire-damaged hiding place.
Chapter 252
- Juliette tells the assembled survivors that their silo was poisoned and those left behind are dead.
- Juliette attributes the poisoning to the people who put their ancestors underground.
- Juliette says her air samples suggest that conditions improve farther from the silos.
- Juliette warns that those controlling the silos can open their doors and poison their air without warning.
- Juliette reveals a map of fifty silos to the survivors.
- Juliette believes there is insufficient fuel remaining for the proposed journey by digger.
- Juliette estimates the remaining food can feed everyone for no more than a week or two.
- Juliette says the original fuel load would have carried the digger to the mapped destination with roughly ten percent extra.
- Juliette believes the upward-aimed diggers were intended to take residents out to the point where their plotted routes meet.
- Juliette acknowledges that the proposed escape rests partly on a stranger’s word and her own hope.
- Juliette is willing to attempt escape only if enough survivors agree to join her.
- Juliette proposes traveling outside in cleaning suits.
Chapter 253
- Juliette teaches a dozen mechanics to assemble breathing valves like those she used with Nelson in the Suit Lab.
- Juliette limits each oxygen bottle to ten people as a safety precaution.
- Juliette promises the dead a proper burial.
- Juliette reports that several of her scars have disappeared.
- Juliette speculates that something in the air, or the absence of gassing, explains the unusual conditions in the silo.
- Juliette would rather risk dying outside than remain inside killing one another.
Chapter 255
- Juliette travels in a lead group of ten people sharing a bottle of air.
- Juliette emerges from the dust into a vivid landscape of grass, blue sky, and white clouds.
- Juliette helps Bobby carry the oxygen bottle down the slope.
- Juliette signals for others to stop a man from removing his helmet prematurely.
- Juliette concludes that the woman on the radio told the truth and Donald really tried to help.
- Juliette uses the map to guide the group onward.
- Juliette agrees to let her father breathe the outside air before she does.
- Juliette and Raph help each other remove their helmets.
- Juliette decides it will be important to preserve seeds from the food carried out in the suits.
- Juliette begins to believe the group might survive longer than a week.
- Juliette carries a bag heavy with dynamite as she studies the concrete tower.
Chapter 256
- Juliette urges the survivors to take only the supplies they need.
- Juliette wants to leave ample supplies for anyone who might arrive later.
- Juliette rejects settling at the warehouse in sight of the distant dome of dust.
- Juliette removes the collapsed stranger’s helmet so she can breathe.
- Juliette feels no anger or resentment toward Charlotte, who had told her the truth about the place.
- Juliette decides the group will head toward the water and invites Charlotte to join them.
Chapter 257
- Seeing the stars makes Juliette think tearfully of Lukas and his love.
- Juliette renews her determination to reach the water on Elise’s map.
- Juliette wants to plant the seeds and establish a home above ground.
- Juliette explains to Elise that the stars are distant suns.
- Juliette declines to name a man-shaped group of stars, saying it already has a name.
- Juliette intends to call another vote because she thinks Solo would be an excellent mayor.
- Juliette finds hope in the possibility of countless other worlds.
- Juliette begins to believe that the people sent out to clean were good people.
- Juliette believes those with real power constrained the ambitions of silo mayors.
- Juliette believes the survivors will succeed in building the life they want.
Chapter 262
- Juliette has served as the village’s mayor for years with little electoral opposition.
- Elise credits Juliette with making both escape from the silos and a refuge for later arrivals possible.
- Juliette encourages newcomers to share their histories only when ready.
- Juliette came from Silo 18.
- Juliette lives in a tree shelter near the beach.
- Juliette spends time alone at night watching stars from the beach.
- Juliette asks Elise to feed April and Remy and help them refresh themselves.
- Juliette pushes Elise aside when April aims a gun at her.
- Juliette is shot in the chest by April.
- Juliette smiles and says things are already okay while Elise comforts her.
- Juliette closes her eyes and her expression relaxes after speaking to Elise.