The Girl Who Owned a City

Lisa spends the next week morose and listless. Jill takes care of her, but the other children don’t understand why she’s so upset, thinking that she’s overcome worse before.

While watching Jill’s children, Lisa notices that they all fight over toys even though there are more than enough toys to go around, and even though Jill repeatedly tries to get them to share. Lisa first tries to assign toys, but when that doesn’t work, she decides to give each child a task to earn their own personal new toys. Jill argues that it’s important for them to learn to share, but Lisa counters that while sharing is good, no one should be forced to share.

Reinvigorated, Lisa attends a meeting with Craig and the other militia leaders. However, she quickly gets into a fight with them and leaves to clear her head at the lake. While there, she realizes that Grand Ave is too open to properly defend, and it occurs to her that the abandoned Glenbard High School, which is up on a hill, would be perfect for them. She tells the others of her plans, and they spend the next week secretly renovating the high school so that everyone in Grandville can move in; on the night of January 1, preparations are complete, and they all move into the high school.