Summary

Everett includes a brief description of certain bottom-feeding creatures in the ocean. These animals live in places that scientifically shouldn’t be able to sustain life. However, these animals have adapted to their surroundings so that they not only survive but flourish.

Blumenthal mentions Mr. Barbanel’s diary, a history written in Yiddish of the captivity and torture of the Jews during the Holocaust. He introduces Miss Margolin, a nurse at the Kovno hospital who smuggled Barbanel’s history and people out of the ghetto. Barbanel’s radio gives the runners a sense of connection with the rest of the world and a sense of hope through this connection. Sarah Blumenthal is a widow and Pem desires to be with her while he mourns her husband at the same time. Yehoshua sees a spy when he visits Miss Margolin, and Barbanel decides to have him go...