Summary

In Chapter 18, Alice and Bucky go on a shopping trip to Boulder and leave Billy alone to write. He sets up in the small cabin, but is distracted by a picture of hedge animals that hangs on the wall. One of the lions has its eyes painted red. Billy turns it to the wall to keep it from distracting him.

The next section returns to the text of Billy’s book. Taco asked their interpreter to call to the people inside the Funhouse three times to come out before the American troops came in shooting. Three warnings were unusual, but Taco said he felt uneasy about the house, especially because it had a low wall running around the domed roof. He feared there might be people hiding there.

Billy offered to go in first, but Taco pointed out he had gone first last...