Matts journey; What is in store for Matt?

In Chapter 23, Matt realizes that it is too late. He finally finds out the menacing truce as to why clones were created, so that El patron and other people could use their body parts to survive longer. Luckily, Celia would stand up for him, giving El patron a little more than he bargained for. The argument between El patron and Celia escalated until El patron just couldn't withstand the pressure and finally, his heart gave way.  But what was to become of  Matt? Matt found himself being carried away by Tam Lin or as Tam Lin would say, "being disposed of"(Farmer, p 239, 2012). Matt was slung over the horse and quickly taken off, the ground flying underneath his head. But he soon found out that he was being taken to his much favourite spot, the lotus pond. Without any hesitation, Tam Lin sent Matt on his way with a map, food and a general idea of what he had to do. Before you know it, Matt was dashing over the mountains, climbing and hiking like no other had before, with power and agility until he reached the much expected farm patrol. Like a lion stalking his prey, Matt patiently waited until the right time to strike. Fortunately, all of a sudden, a commotion broke lose and a group of the farm patrol went chasing towards it. Matt then found himself printing for his life, the farm patrol not close behind. As luck would have it, Matt made it across the border, but he had no materials to spare. Soon he found himself being adopted into an orphanage by the keeper named Raul. The downside to this would be his new found duty to work. Within a couple days of working at the orphanage, Matt was sent off to San luis, or so he thought. Instead he was sent off to the plankton factory where trying to run away would get you nowhere in the scorching hot dessert.

But what is in store for Matt? So far it looks as if everything will be fine and matt will be able to find his way to Maria. But i think that Nancy Farmer has other plans. I think that in order to keep the reader more interested int he book, she is going to create a turn of events. Sure seeing the main character succeed is great, but it is much more fun to read if the character must go through many "obstacles" to reach his final destination. One thing that Nancy farmer has already done was to make it seem like there is no possible hope for Matt to get away from the plankton factory as it is in the middle of the dessert. What will Matt do to get to Maria? Will his carefully planned plans actually succeed, or will they go down in flames?