Summary

Stasha explains that at the laboratories, the prisoners of the Zoo are tested, photographed, x-rayed, and experimented upon. Dr. Miri is there, looking haggard, and so is Nurse Elma. Stasha tries to decide where the two of them would fall in the Classification of Living Things, making the former a starfish, the latter a crab. When a hail storm begins, Stasha ducks into a side room and discovers it has a wall covered with disembodied eyes that have been pinned in place. She recalls a Nazi guard coming to their home to talk to their mother about their father's disappearance and kicking her, and a time Zayde had come home with a bloody nose. Nurse Elma arrives and warns Stasha to tell no one about the eyes.

Stasha takes note of the other twins in the lab. It is rumored that one pair...