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Both Jonas and Asher attended the group in the audittorium where the elder leader was going to announce the three members who are given an assignment. After calling for the 3 members, she went to call out Asher in which there's a long conversation of getting a new assignment.

Jonas meets a guy named Asher where they can do their mandatory volunteer hours together. Children from eight to eleven volunteer at different locations daily to develop skills and get a sense of their occupational interests. Jonas enjoys volunteer hours because they are less regulated than other hours of his day, meaning he wants his day to go fast of finding a hobby that can distract him from checking the time.

Jonas’s father brings the struggling newchild Gabriel home to spend nights with Jonas’s family. Lily remarks that Gabriel has “funny eyes” like Jonas—both boys have light eyes, while most people in the community have darker eyes. 

Jonas went to have a private conversation with his father of learning that all the Ceremonies take place over two days in December; that is, The Ceremony for the Ones and The Ceremony of Twelve, etc. Every year, something happens for a kid. Since Jonas' Father was always so good with kids, he knew he'd be a Nurturer.

Josh and his father were having a talk with his sister, Lily, who isn't looking alright where she was thinking about the old man she met before on the streets and that not doing anything to protect him makes her feel frightened.

The story introduces to a young guy named Jonas, who struggles to find the right words on how he feels, especially the word frightened where there were a group of aircrafts flying past the community that he frightened him.