Summary

R. and G. leave; Jill feels that Boone is distressed and unsettled by what they said to him. Boone asks if they were a vision he hallucinated and Jill tells him that they were really here and asks him what he did to warrant such a visit. Boone becomes angry with Jill and calls her a “stupid bitch” (65). Jill is shocked and leaves the bedroom.

Jill floats over the neighborhood reflecting on her encounter with Boone. She settles on an abandoned couch. She has never previously felt such an aversion to someone whom she was tasked with comforting on their deathbed and reflects that she has begun to hate him. Two others of her ilk approach. They are both preoccupied with their own deaths and tell the stories of what happened to them over and over again. They ask Jill about her death...