Tally's Summary
In this part of the story Tally becomes 16 and is off to do her operation when she has a surprise visitor, Shay! Tally asks Shay what she wants to do for their final trick and when Shay tells Tally she’s leaving with David to avoid taking the operation. For a while Tally thinks Shay is talking outlandish, but when she notices that her plans are not lies Tally is completely perplexed. She declines Shay’s offer to follow her to the smoke and just ponders why wouldn’t anyone want to be a pretty. She promises not to reveal Shay’s plans and Shay sets off. The next day Tally waits for the car to take her to the operation. When they tell her about the operation it sounds a lot less gruesome then Shay describes. When she moves to the operation room,