Summary

Arn loses one shoe on the way out of the door, and kicks off the other as he runs into the night. He walks through the woods that surround Peter’s house, covered in a mixture of his and Sojeat’s blood. It begins to rain and Arn feels like he’s in the jungle again. Arn feels as though he is poison and that he hurts everything he touches.

He walks, just as he had in the jungle, putting one foot in front of the other until he reaches a road. A large sound from behind scares him back into the bush until he realizes that it is only a passing truck. Then he begins to hope for another one, realizing that if he just steps out in front of it, all of the problems will end. He will be just a smear...