Summary

In Section 24, Worried Man makes a tape recording for Daniel telling him what he knows about Cedar’s time in the war. This tape is narrated from Worried Man’s point of view. He says that all Cedar has said to him about the war is that it changed him entirely. Worried Man says that Cedar left the war wanting to “build rather than destroy.” He also comments about a bad scar that Cedar has that encircles his neck.

In Section 25, the narrator describes the technique Maple Head developed for getting Worried Man out of his robosuit at night. Finally one night Maple Head asks her husband what happened inside the cave. After he tells her, he apologizes for being so selfish. May admits that the day he left for his trip was the first day in their married lives that...