Chapter 25 Summary

Codi gets on a bus to go to Telluride, where Carlo has lined up a modeling job in a fine arts school. Mrs. Quintana (Doc Homer's assistant) and Uda will take care of her father. She feels that she can't stay in Grace because it has Hallie in it, and she can't stand the pain. "I was half her and half me," she tells Loyd.

Codi flashes back to her last weeks in Grace as the bus moves out of town. She and Loyd discuss where people go when they die. Loyd tells the myth of the Pueblos - that everyone started out underground until a badger dug a hole and let them out. When they die, they go back under. He thinks of his brother in that way. He tells her that she should not leave because there's family in Grace to...