Republic plague patrol soldiers mark Day's family home with a red X, confirming someone inside has been infected.

Day breaks into Los Angeles Central Hospital to steal plague medicine but discovers all the vials are empty.

Day throws a knife at Captain Metias during his hospital escape and loses his father's pendant in the process.

June is brought to the hospital to identify Metias's body and vows to hunt down his killer.

June disguises herself and sets a trap at the ten-second place, offering plague medicine as bait to lure Day.

Day notices June's cloak is tied with a military knot and flees the meeting without taking the plague medicine.

After Tess is shoved into the Skiz ring, June volunteers to fight in her place and defeats Kaede.

Day rescues June from the angry crowd after the Skiz fight and they take shelter in an abandoned library.

Day and June share stolen wine and kiss; June notices him reaching for a missing necklace and realizes he is Day.

June secretly follows Day to his family's house at night and reports his location to Thomas and the soldiers.

When Day refuses to surrender at his family's home, Thomas executes Day's mother on Commander Jameson's orders.

Day is shot in the leg and captured alongside his brother John after the standoff at the family home.

Day is publicly sentenced to death by firing squad at a ceremony broadcast across the entire city.

June discovers Metias's secret blog, revealing the Republic engineered plagues, killed her parents, and Thomas murdered Metias.

John switches places with Day at the firing squad; Day and June escape on Patriots' motorcycles while John is executed.

Legend follows fifteen-year-old Day, a wanted criminal surviving on the streets of a dystopian Los Angeles, and June, a military prodigy driven to avenge her brother Metias's murder. After Day breaks into a hospital to steal plague medicine and injures Metias during his escape, June is assigned to catch him and sets a trap that draws him into her orbit. The two fall unexpectedly in love while June is undercover, but her loyalty to the Republic wins out and she turns Day in, leading to his mother's execution and his capture. As Day awaits execution, June uncovers the Republic's horrifying crimes — including that Thomas, not Day, murdered Metias — and switches sides to help Day escape. In a dramatic finale, Day's older brother John sacrifices himself at the firing squad so Day and June can flee together. The two emerge as fugitives bound by love and a shared determination to challenge the Republic.

The headline events driving Legend's central story.

June is suspended from Drake University for climbing a 19-story building; Metias bails her out and warns her to behave.

Day wakes up in a stranger's safe house where Tess reveals that his brother Eden has contracted the plague.

Day and Tess are forced to leave the safe house after learning a stranger is specifically searching for Day.

Metias's funeral takes place; June meets Chian, the Trial overseer who harbors a personal grudge against Day.

Day enters a bar in the Lake sector and learns a mysterious stranger claims to have plague medicine specifically for him.

Day and Tess bet all their money on Kaede winning her Skiz fights to raise funds for Eden's plague cure.

Day secretly visits his family at night, observes Eden's worsening condition, and notices the number 2544 inscribed in the yard.

June interrogates Day in his holding cell, striking him with her gun and demanding he confess to killing Metias.

Thomas attempts to kiss June after the celebration gala honoring Day's capture; she refuses and withdraws from him.

Day is chained on the rooftop in the hot sun for two days as punishment before his scheduled execution.

June visits Day on the rooftop and tells him she has discovered he earned a perfect Trial score of 1500.

Republic soldiers open fire on civilians protesting Day's sentencing outside Batalla Hall, killing over 120 people.

June returns to the Lake sector, finds Kaede protecting Tess, and recruits the Patriots to rescue Day at his execution.

Thomas intercepts June as Day is led toward the firing squad and detains her in the basement for questioning.

Day and June agree to head east together to find Tess and rescue Eden from the warfront.

This pool captures the significant scenes that flesh out the world of Legend and deepen the reader's understanding of its characters. From June's suspension at Drake University to Day's desperate attempts to raise money for Eden's plague cure, these events show the contrasting lives of the story's two heroes before and after they meet. Key moments include Metias's funeral, Day's nighttime visits to his ailing family, and the brutal interrogation that begins to fracture June's faith in the Republic. The pool also covers the aftermath of Day's capture — his rooftop punishment, the mass killing of protesters that shocks June, and her discovery of Day's true Trial score. It concludes with June recruiting the Patriots and setting the rescue in motion, and with Day and June finally agreeing to flee east together in search of Tess and Eden.

The supporting moments that build Legend's world and characters.

Metias tells June they have a lot to talk about before leaving for the hospital — his last words to her.

Commander Jameson graduates June early from Drake University and promises her a promotion if she can capture Day.

June examines Metias's crime scene at the hospital and identifies the pendant left behind as her key clue to finding Day.

Thomas savagely beats a captured Colonies spy during interrogation; June is disturbed and shaken by his cruelty.

June feels a surprising pang of guilt as she realizes she is using Day's trust in her to lead him into a trap.

June watches Day's mother die and expects to feel satisfaction for avenging Metias, but the feeling never comes.

Day notices a door marked with a red zero near a plague-tagged body bag and begins to suspect the plague is deliberate.

June hacks the Trial database and discovers that Day secretly earned a perfect score of 1500, identical to her own.

Day tells June the Republic spreads engineered plague through ventilation pipes and that labor camps are actually morgues in hospital basements.

June notices Commander Jameson speaking privately into Thomas's earpiece during the riot, keeping June completely out of the loop.

Thomas shows Day photographs of suspected Patriots during questioning; Day secretly recognizes Kaede among them but says nothing.

June zooms into crime scene photographs of Metias and notices grease marks on the knife hilt matching marks she saw on Thomas.

June discovers misspelled words hidden in Metias's journals form a coded URL leading to his secret blog.

Day fakes a plague illness to attempt escape from his cell but is subdued; June whispers that he will need her help.

Day sees a news broadcast reporting his own execution and realizes the young man shown being killed is his brother John.

This pool tracks the pivotal revelations and emotional turning points that transform both Day and June throughout Legend. Beginning with Metias's fateful last words and June's discovery of the pendant clue, it moves through the disturbing signs that first crack June's faith in the Republic — Thomas's cruelty during interrogation, her guilt at trapping Day, and her horror at feeling nothing when Day's mother is killed. The central revelations escalate quickly: Day's hacked Trial score, his claims about engineered plagues and false labor camps, and June's chilling discovery of grease marks that implicate Thomas in Metias's murder. Metias's coded journals confirm the truth June feared, and Day's failed solo escape attempt forces her full commitment to helping him. The pool ends with Day seeing a broadcast confirming John died at the firing squad in his place, capturing the devastating human cost of survival under the Republic.