Section 7 (pages 145-169) Summary

Snowman wakes up feeling the effects of a hangover. He opens a can of Sveltana No-Meat Cocktail Sausages. He knows that he is starving to death. He thinks that he should go back to the RejoovenEsense Compound, because there is probably still a lot of canned foods and booze there. Crake's bubble-dome should also contain guns. He sets off to the Children of Crake's camp to tell them he is going. He doesn't want them to assume he is missing and wander off looking for him. The Crakers are his responsibility.

As Snowman approaches the Crakers, he sees the men performing their morning urination ritual. The scent of their urine keeps wolvogs, rakunks, bobkittens and pigoons away. The men urinate in a ring around the camp to protect its inhabitants.

Snowman sees that a boy has been injured, and...