Summary

In Chapter 37, Dell returns home to find Pattie and the children asleep in his apartment. He doesn’t recognize it. He sleeps for five hours in his room until he hears the sound of the shower running. Pattie knocks on the door. She tells him social services will be coming again in a week and that it would be easier for them to just stay there instead of her having to clean up after him. She informs him that another tenant in the building is looking for a roommate. A short time later, he finds himself talking to Sadhu in apartment 22. Sadhu agrees to let him live there.

In Chapter 38, Pattie tells everyone the arrangement is temporary until a good place can found for Willow. Willow feels bad for Dell but compares their situation to being part of a flock of birds. Although...