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Natalie Monologue

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Imagine this, it’s noon and you’re outside on a beautifully sunny day. Everything is going perfectly swell until suddenly you’re swallowed by an unexpected wave of blistering hot air. You black out and moments, maybe hours later, you regain your conscience and find yourself stranded somewhere in an unnaturally gorgeous island. That’s practically the story of everyone who finds themselves on an island called Nil, and everyone who finds themselves on the mysterious island has exactly a year to leave before they die. On this pretty little island was a girl named Natalie. She was a veteran on Nil and had priority. Having priority meant that you …show more content…

When she first sees Charlie, who was unconscious and had a head injury at the time, she makes no hesitation to help her and begins giving out orders. “That’s a lot of blood, but head injuries bleed so much, it’s hard to tell how bad it really is.” Natalie had said “She might have a concussion. Someone needs to stay with her tonight and wake her every few hours.” Another act of kindness from Natalie happens in chapter thirty-four when she helps a random girl who tried to steal what could’ve been her last save from death. “Not my gate. And unlike her, I’m totally fine.” Is what she told the rest of her search team as she checked the girl’s health. The one issue that Natalie faced throughout the story was the loss of Kevin. Kevin was Natalie’s boyfriend who, on his final two days on Nil, went off on his own and left her. It is revealed that he had caught a gate and lived, but not without leaving a mark on Natalie with his decision. “I can’t take it anymore. People come, people go. Jerks drop in, and Kevin’s gone. I’m done. I want out. I want Kevin, and I want to go …show more content…

Along with her grief over Kevin, Natalie begins to bring up some false beliefs. She starts to believe in outrageous predictions created by another girl named Ramia. Like the one she made for Li after she died. “That creepy song Ramia sang on her last Nil Night. ‘To Nil we come, from Nil some go, and some like me will stay.’ If you change ‘me’ to ‘Li,’ it fits.” And Natalie brings up Ramia again when the same girl who tried to steal her gate dies on her bed. “I let you put her in my bed! I didn’t stay with you, and when I went inside the hut to check on her, she was dead.” She then blames herself for someone else’s death. “Ramia warned me, Thad. And I blew it.” Natalie also becomes certain that Charlie’s theory about gate appearances is true, giving her hope for something that could be entirely incorrect. Charlie mentions this in chapter thirty-five, “I only brought up my idea of how the gates might roll in sequence because Jason looked so darn upset when a gate didn’t flash, and I wanted Natalie to have a ray of hope. But she ran with it like it was solid, like it was more than a theory.” Natalie also tells Charlie about her

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