Summary

In Chapter 30, inside the house Peter had shared with his parents, he remembered the boy he had been. He was angry when he considered how naive he was. He remembered how his father had gone around their house gathering things up after his mother died. He wondered then why he did not want to keep those things. Now, as an adult, he understood. He thought that maybe he should burn everything that reminded him of his old life.

Peter thought about what Jade had said and decided he needed to go through the pain of sleeping in his old house. The following day he would go to the mill site and go through that pain as well. Perhaps, after that, he could move forward.

In Chapter 31, as Pax and his kit healed, Pax told his daughter the story of how he and Peter...