Summary

Chapter 19 returns briefly to B-Mor and a hand-painted sign that reads: FREE REG. The narrator discusses how the people of B-Mor do not spend time thinking too far into the future because their security is ensured. Back in the Charter house, the girls are nearing death and Vik tries to get Miss Cathy to allow him to take them to the hospital. Fan sets box tops on fire to try and trip the fire alarm. Mala asks Fan to get a bag together for the sick girls and to pack one for herself. Mala gives Fan her bus fare card and tells her to take any bus to escape, but Fan hesitates to leave just yet.

Fan finds Miss Cathy curling Seven’s hair. She asks to join in. The Girls paint each other’s nails. Uncharacteristically, Miss Cathy offers to paint Fan...