Chapters 4 through 6 Summary

In chapter four, there is discussion about being ghosts and Allie hates the terms. Nick says they are "USDs," Undefined Spectral Doohickies, but none of them laugh about it. Leif says the other children who pass through refer to themselves as "Afterlights." The conversation turns to the McGill and Allie asks why kids are afraid if nothing can hurt them. Leif says the McGill "knows how to make you suffer till the end of time." Leif says most kids believe the McGill is "the devil's own pet hound" that escaped, unable to make it all the way to the living world.

Nick suggests that their current situation could be like a coin standing on its edge in that they might be able to find the tunnel and the light at the end of it, or they might even be able to...