Summary

Jill returns to the bedroom where she finds the Frenchman waiting for her. The Frenchman gives her a vision of the future in which extreme weather events and unseasonal weather is the norm. He gives her another vision of his own life, during which he invented the combustion engine. The Frenchman expresses shame over his invention, which surprises Jill who remembers the happiness her car had brought her when she was alive. The Frenchman tells her that his invention poisons. He suggests she should enter the thoughts of Boone to share with him the image of the future disrupted weather events, which she does but not as forcefully as the Frenchman had hoped she would. The vision has no discernible impact on Boone. Thus, the Frenchman accuses Jill of wasting the vision which he had gone to great trouble to obtain. He leaves...