Summary

This section begins with an interview transcript from the perspective of Joslan Micallef, a young woman serving a life sentence at Rikers Island for murdering an elderly woman. Joslan did not know why she did what she did, except that she was on drugs at the time of the murder.

In Chapter 5, Hel arrived at her appointment with Teresa Klay at the library. She mentioned to Teresa that she had once been mugged by a man with a knife nearby, in her own universe. Meanwhile, at the storage facility, Vikram asked his coworker Kabir if he had seen the strange blue light in one of the units. Kabir had not. Hel and Teresa drove to the boarding school Ezra Sleight attended in the other universe. Hel thought about her son Jonas, who lived with his father in California after...