Keep calling for me–

                     Keep doing it, keep coming to save me–

      Cuz every day yer closer–

               I can almost hear you–

I can almost–

Is that you?

            Is that us?Is that what we did?

Viola?            Keep calling for me–

                     And I’ll keep searching for you–

And I’ll find you–

            You bet yer life on it–

I’ll find you–

Keep calling for me, Viola–

Cuz here I come.

PATRICK NESS is the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, which includes The Knife of Never Letting Go, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize; The Ask and the Answer, winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award; and Monsters of Men. He has written two books for adults and is a literary critic for the Guardian. He says, “Even in a society where we’re constantly being told to ‘be ourselves,’ the pressure to conform is terrible, especially for the young. If the Chaos Walking trilogy is about anything, it’s about identity, finding out who you are. How do you stay an individual when the pressure to conform, to change who you are, is actually life-threatening?” Born in Virginia, Patrick Ness lives in London.

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