Summary

Chapter 15. Olin visits the death chamber one last time and leaves the piece of amber as an offering to his mother. He runs into Sister Catherine again, during which time they say their goodbyes. Olin boards a bus for Cracow and comes upon Earwig. Earwig regretfully says that he finally learned that the ship on which his mother was taken away, the Struma, was turned back from Germany, and sent to return to Romania, but was not allowed to dock there, either. It was eventually blown up by the Russians with more than seven hundred passengers still aboard. Only one man survived.

Chapter 16. Earwig gets off the bus at the airport. Olin rides into Cracow with others from the retreat who are still talking about the things that happened there. When Olin arrives at his hotel, he finds a note from Sister Catherine...