Summary

Chapter Twelve. Luke does not return to the woods for an entire week. Instead, he spends his time learning everything he can about Hendricks and his fellow students. Luke manages to peek into every room in the school building and finds that it is not only the wall that he saw from the woods that has no windows – there isn’t a single window in the entire building. Luke notices that there are boys who wrap their arms around their knees and rock back and forth in all of his classes, but no one seems to pay any attention to them. He also realizes that most of the other boys look away quickly when Luke stares directly at them; the boys who do not look away immediately worry Luke, and he thinks of them as the ‘starers.’ All of the hall monitors...