Summary

In "The Seventh Property of Thirst is Spontaneous Combustion," Sunny learns that Schiff has signed up for the military. The narrative switches to that of Schiff, and the reader learns that he has been preparing to leave camp for war. He is going through his books and deciding who to give them to. He decides to leave the fiction books to the library in the camp, and he plans to give his law books to Rocky. Sunny appears and confronts him about joining the military. He affirms that he did. She tells him that she does not want him to die. The two kiss and have sex.

Sunny considers what she would ask her mother if she were alive. She had once asked Stryker this, and he said he...