Part Two, Chapters 9-11 Summary

In Chapter 9, the boys find that the stench is coming from a raccoon, which relieves Q. After breaking into one of the abandoned buildings (at what appears to be an abandoned minimal), they find the spray painted words "Troll Hole" which led into a souvenir store untouched since 1986. However, when they break into an office room they see the words written in bright spray paint, "You will go to the paper towns and you will never come back." The boys leave the minimall frightened and concerned.

Q remains obsessed with the clues. He calls Otis Warren, the detective, who assures him that she's a legal adult and that Q should let her come home before he "floats away" as well. Instead, Q tries to hunt down the meaning of a paper town. He concludes that a paper...