Chapter 11 Summary

The Kormian volcano erupts and Isabel, who was an accomplished runner as a young girl, is racing to escape the lava and is out ahead of the others of her entourage. She comes upon Ex-Rodrigo, who now has the soul of Cuquita's drunken husband. Isabel's bodyguards and Ex-Azucena find her apparently dead and are fabricating a tale about who killed her so they won't be blamed. She comes to and Ex-Rodrigo tries to persuade her to take him back to Earth because his wife and Azucena have changed his identity and left him here. Isabel figures out that she no longer has Rodrigo here but a substitute. A reporter is there, so Isabel tells everyone that "Rodrigo" was involved in the murder of Mr. Bush, that she identified him and hurried ahead to capture him. She now knows that she must eliminate Azucena...