Summary

Chapter three switches the narrative perspective back to the Observer as it begins moving through the town toward its destination of the Broken River State Prison. He zeroes in on a girl initially described as waifish who moves single-mindedly through Broken River to the prison. As she is crossing town the Observer notes that she is tall and that her lean frame hides a surprising strength.

The Observer waits and watches outside the prison for three hours while the girl is inside. When she leaves it follows her to a nearby payphone booth. She makes a short call on her cell phone and then goes to sit on a guardrail half a block away from the prison for twenty minutes.

A car picks her up, and the Observer remarks that it is driven by a man, which it determined from the hairy arm seen...