Chapter 3 Summary

The gunslinger is startled out of his sleep. He dreams about his love Susan and about watching her be burned alive. She is screaming to him in his dream about the boy. "Roland the boy!" she yells and in his dream he looks up to a window and sees Jake with a spike in his forehead. This dream is what startles him out of his sleep.

The gunslinger jumps up and scans the campsite for Jake, but the boy is gone. The gunslinger runs, following the boy's track into the grass and through a spring. He comes to a clearing with a ring of tall, black stones surrounding it. In the center, there is a table of stone, an altar. The boy is standing before it swaying back and forth.

The gunslinger steps inside the ring of stone and Jake screams and recoils...