Chapters 15 and 16 Summary

In chapter fifteen, the Marine Sulphur Queen, the ship currently manned by The McGill and his crew, disappeared on February 7, 1963. The disappearance was shrouded in mystery but the ship crossed over, though without a single soul on board. McGill has learned that being powerful in Everlost is dependent on being willful and he has become very willful. One of the McGill's crew members, a boy with an extremely small head called Pinhead, suggests the boys in the barrels will be forever loyal to the person who releases them. McGill takes the suggestion and Leif and Nick are released from the barrels. Leif has come to a peaceful place, simply content to accept whatever happens next. Nick has thought about his life and has undergone a dramatic personality change so that he is now fearless. A third barrel is opened and a...