David, just because Zane annoyed me.
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Still of she hadnt taken tje pills she had thought her way out of being pretty so she could have just thought her wauly out of being it
She only thought her way out of being pretty because she THOUGHT she was taking the cure. It's that one psychology thingy. What I'm getting at is, if you take each out(David and Zane) and think of how it would affect the story, you could see how much more neccessary Zane was to the story. If David had been taken out then it really wouldn't have been that big of a deal. Maddy and Az could have been the ones that went around the cities ruins and got kids to go to the smoke. But take Zane out and the last 3 books totally collapse.