Summary

Alice tries to comfort Finch who is having a nightmare. He snaps awake and tells Alice they should go back to good fairy tales. He dreamed that everything in the Hinterlands is real and asks Alice if she is willing to go beyond the end of the earth to find her mother. Alice realizes she should not take him all the way with her because she cares too much.

Hours later, Alice wakes up again and is upset when Finch tells her she talked in her sleep, but he will not tell her what she said. Outside, they find their car filled with water, and Finch tells Alice that they cannot go back. Inside, Alice finds a dying catfish, which Alice calls a victim of the Hinterland. Back in the motel, the desk clerk tells them they can catch the fisherman’s bus which...