Summary

Meg felt drugged as Rake drove away from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He had slipped into her psychiatric facility in the post-treatment Grid and forced her to come with him. Though her memories felt as if they were constantly slipping away from her, she groggily recalled that after she was kidnapped, they had robbed a house for food and clothes. Rake had shot a man, and she remembered the look of fear in his eyes. In the car, Rake moved his hand up and down her thigh as he explained that he had known the man whose violent death in Vietnam had caused the trauma that led her to undergo enfolding. She slowly realized she could remember very little before Rake had taken her. Rake was soliloquizing as they drove, discussing his near religious love of Iggy Pop. They passed a car with an...