Chapters 12 through 24 Summary

In chapter thirteen, the train car becomes unbearably hot the following day. When Elena asks about Kostas, Lina doesn't tell her that Kostas had been beaten. Lina thinks about her meeting with her father. He'd told her to keep drawing and she hadn't really known what he meant. Looking back at the conversation the following day, she understands that he will recognize her art and that she can send messages to him through her drawings. In chapter fourteen, Andrius returns to the car and has obviously been brutally beaten. Lina helps him make it the rest of the way to the car and the others help pull him in. In chapter fifteen, their rail car pulls away from the station. Lina sees a priest who "flung oil and made the sign of the cross." She realizes he's issuing last rites on...