Summary

At dinner Olive cannot help but feel as if she is living in a dream. She thinks, "I get the sense that we're living on a cloud; no matter what I tell my head and my heart, I worry I'm in for a rough crash landing when we fly home to Minnesota in a matter of days. As much as I fight the thought, it keeps returning, uninvited: This can't last It's too good"(259).

Ethan suggests they go to the highest point on the island in the morning as it supposedly has the best views. They wake up at four in the morning to go on the hike and Olive tells Ethan about her last time hiking when she somehow ended up putting her hand into a crevice and getting bit by a rattlesnake. Ethan tells her that it was lucky that the ranger...