Summary

Chapter 13, “In Which I Get a Visit from the Dead,” is from Jane's perspective and opens with a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Jane is “antsy” because of being in the cell and the hourly firing of the rail gun. She reads the letter she took from Jackson. A girl named Rosamund writes that she knows he cannot read this, but that he might find someone to read it to him. She writes that the baby is kicking and that she is sworn to him. She wants to be angry, but knows that this is proof that Jackson had “a chance at a real future, one full of love and family” (168), but he died. She is interrupted by Jackson's voice pointing out that she is reading his letter. She has a brief conversation with Jackson's ghost about whether he is real, then...