Chapter 13 Summary

This chapter starts with Isidore headed home from work after having stopped at a "black-market grocery store" to buy several hard to find food items. We learn that his purchases cost him two weeks' salary, and that he has a bottle of wine he had been saving. He goes to Pris Stratton's apartment and enters. She is excited to see the food, but says that food is wasted on her. Isidore tells her she is just lonely because she has no friends. She replies that she had seven friends that the bounty hunters have killed some or all of them.

Isidore does not know about bounty hunters, so Stratton explains the basics and leaves out the fact that bounty hunters go after androids. Isidore refuses to believe her, and believes she is crazy. He offers to protect her. She notes that Polokov, Garland...