Chapters 4-7 Summary

Chapter 4 returns to Bird's story as he continues to regain his memories and power. He enacts a spell to "get me out of here," and a few days later he, along with Hijohn and Littlejohn, are reassigned to an outdoors work-camp. This provides Bird with the opportunity he needs to escape, and the three of them manage to get away. Hijohn wants to return to the hills, where he is a leader among the rebels, and at the end of Chapter 4, he splits from the other two.

Chapter 5 returns to Madrone, who attempts a healing that involves dropping her own protective psychic shields and delving deep into her patient's system. This is a risky method of healing where you would "absorb the disease; then cure it inside yourself" (pg. 79.) Madrone realizes almost immediately that she might have made a mistake and...