Robyn emerges from the stairway thoroughly confused. She asks Key to accompany her to the storeroom where Eveline says answers reside. Instead, Robyn and Key find piles of shoes and hair supplies. Key jokes that perhaps they can build their enemies a torture chamber out of stilettos and conditioner. He grabs a catalog from the store room, assuming it might come in handy. Robyn shows him the note Eveline handed her, which reads “398.26 ML” (166). Key recognizes it as a call number from a library.

Key and Robyn head to the forest and are joined by Laurel. The three eat a meal of cooked rice and fruit and sleep, heading to the library the next morning. On the wall of the entryway, Robyn spots a wanted poster for Floyd Bridger, the large man whose backpack she and Laurel hid in the sewer, indicating Bridger managed to escape the MPs. She also sees an “APPREHENDED” (169) poster with the photos of the mother and children whom she gave food to yesterday. Robyn’s heart sinks as she realizes the MPs thought it was the mother who stole the food from the depot.