Summary

Chapters 7 through 9

In Chapter 7, Chase drives away quickly. When he reaches out to see if Ember is okay, she pulls away, afraid of the violent man he has become. She remembers when he was drafted by the military and that he would have disobeyed the order and stayed behind if she had asked him. Eventually, they stop so he can tend to his wound. Ember says that she needs to go to the bathroom. Instead, she runs into a corn field with the intention of escaping because she is afraid of him. She quickly gets lost; but, she is relieved when she sees a trailer with a woman sitting outside it. However, when she goes inside, she finds a horrific mess, including animal carcasses hanging from the ceiling, and realizes the woman is clearly deranged and thinks Ember is her daughter Alice. The...