Chapter 10 Summary

Meg wakes up, but is frozen and unable to move. She tries to tell her father that she is all right, but she can only lie there and listen to her father and Calvin talking.

Calvin and Mr. Murry are worried about Meg, but she is slowly coming back to life. Calvin asks Mr. Murry about how he ended up on Camazotz. It was an accident, since Mr. Murry was planning to go to Mars. Mr. Murry explains that he was the second of two scientists to tesser, and that he doesn't know what happened to the first scientist. Mr. Murry is anxious to get home, to warn the other scientists that they need to handle the power of tessering with more care.

They talk about Mr. Murry's experiences on Camazotz, and the fact that he had almost given in to IT when...