Chapter 13 Summary

The surviving blind people flee the conflagration and witness the hospital burn then collapse. They drop to the ground and, exhausted, sleep where they fall. In the morning, they wake up and set off in various bands to uncertain destinations. The doctor, the doctor's wife, the first blind man, the first blind man's wife, the girl with dark glasses, the man with the black eye-patch, and the boy with the squint form a group of seven and, led by the doctor's wife, start off into the city intending to return to their various homes.

They quickly discover that the city is in chaos. They learn that the entire city, indeed the entire nation, has succumbed to the blindness and that the doctor's wife is perhaps the only person who can see in the entire land. The city is itself a huge asylum with...