Part 12, p. 230 - 248 Summary

Will returns to school, but even reassuring glances from Mi Su can't keep him from being restless, so he "pulls a BT" and goes home in the middle of the day. The house feels empty and strange, and the sound of Korbet outside obsessively pedaling his bike is annoying, and the memories of Tabby are surging, and suddenly Will realizes the only thing he can do is behave as Tabby behaves. He rampages through the house pulling all the Tabby tricks he can think of. At one point, he races up to the dormer attic and rips the wrappings off all the wedding presents, suddenly discovering that his great grandmother, whom everyone had always referred to as Margaret, was actually called Betsy by her family. That, he comments in narration, "made all the difference" and he rushes to his...