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On a foggy winter night, 13-year-old Amanda Otter whispers into a pay telephone, finalizing plans with Faye Yager for a second trip into Yager's underground network. Ten years earlier, Yager had helped Amanda and her mother go into hiding. This time, Amanda would flee on her own into the underground, rather than live with her father.