Summary

In chapter seventeen, Gemma tells the story and Sylvia finally gathers the courage to ask the question the girls always wanted to ask, "How can they have any future lives if they're dead." Gemma answers that if the prince knows the stories of those who have died and tells those stories to those in the future, they continue to live. Sylvia and Shana say they don't understand, and Becca claims that she also doesn't understand, trying to be like her sisters, though she does understand.

In chapter eighteen, Becca begins her trip to Poland. She has arranged for a translator named Magda Bronski, who meets her at the airport upon her arrival. They spend the first night with Magda's Auntie Wanda. Becca had been instructed to bring Magda blue jeans as a gift and Magda quite honestly says that the jeans aren't for her but...