Lucy calls Dave to tell her that Chetta shattered her arm falling out of bed. She doesn’t tell him how bad it actually was, or how relieved she would have been to have her duty as caregiver end. Lucy wants to put Chettah in hospice. When Abra comes down to comfort her, she has already sensed most of what’s happening.

Rose fasts in preparation for visiting Abra, then meditates for hours before taking steam. Walnut enters and gives Rose the chemical diagram for a sedative that could immobilize the girl once they catch her. Rose tells him to mail it, giving him a three-drop mail sequence that ends in Sturbridge, where they will pick up the sedative when they are closer to Abra. Rose threatens Walnut with exile if it goes wrong. Crow Daddy enters and says there is a rumor that someone saw Grampa Flick “cycle” (269).

Jimmy Numbers enters and shows her a clipping of an earthquake in Anniston. Rose is fairly sure that the girl caused it. She tells Jimmy to examine Grampa and to give him some steam.

John meets with Dan and Billy. Dan asks him to accompany him to Iowa for a few days.