Summary

In Chapter 40, Peter was angry with himself as he piled up kindling and put all of his belongings from his old life on top of it. He believed that he hurt everything that he loved, just like he had hurt Pax’s kit. As Peter’s things burned, he cried for the life he had lost. When he calmed, he realized that like the phoenix in the myth his mother once told him, he had built a nest and burned all of the mementos of his old life. A new life would rise from the ashes of that fire.

When the smoke cleared and Peter looked up, Pax was sitting next to the shed holding what Peter feared was a dead kit in his jaws. Peter thought Pax had come to show Peter what he had done. However, when Pax began walking toward...