Summary

Zach, Alice and Poppy stop outside the back of a tattoo parlor, tired and unsure. Taking out her bus schedule, Poppy searches for East Rochester and they determine that they were only two stops from East Liverpool. Alice and Zach discuss possible options for getting home when Poppy quietly insists that she plans to wait for the next bus and go on regardless of what they decide to do. Alice worries about where Poppy will sleep and Zach adds his suggestion that they bury the Queen the following weekend or the one after that one, but Poppy knows that if they don’t do it now, they’ll never come back a second time. She talks about how people always put off things that they want to do, never actually doing them, and she didn't want to be that kind of person. It is...