Summary

Chapter 10 is narrated from Day’s point of view and begins with a dream. Day is in his old home where John, Eden, and his mother are asleep but his father is missing. He goes outside, sees his father in the shadows, and begins chasing him. When he catches up to his father, he tells him it is his birthday. His father tells him he has to return to the warfront. Day recalls that it was “the last time I ever saw him” (153), shifting from dream to memory.

Day’s narration returns to the present, where he sits in his room at the Patriot base. Tess knocks on the door, but Day sits and thinks about his family and Pascao. She knocks again and he lets her in, and she tells him that there is a “live feed” of...