"It's always a tracker," she says darkly, having experienced it far too many times to see it as anything but the nuisance that it is. Maybe they're tired of giving them a long lead, maybe they're wanting to treat them a little more like the captives they are, but she can't imagine it's anything else.

"Last time, they implanted them, I figured we had the same deal," she says, even if she'd mapped out her skin dozens of times. "Looks like I might have been wrong and they were just making sure they were ready to go."