Chapters 14 and 15 Summary

In Chapter 14, Neil is ordered to burn down the school. He and Tony discuss the situation; Tony concocts a plan to burn the school down in the middle of the night, but Neil refuses, and instead asks Tony to supply him with a gun from his father's gun collection for protection from the Caretaker.

Tony notices that Neil looks particularly frail, and wonders if the only thing wrong with his knee is cartilage damage. Tony asks Neil if he has saved up enough money to have the leg surgery he needs, and Neil says that he gave his mother his savings so that she could visit her brother in Arkansas.

Tony tells Neil that he would have turned himself in to the police on the night of the incident last summer if Neil had told him to do it at the...