Summary

Chapter 29 opens with Phin having already found the secret rooftop to the house. He and Henry were not the first people to have sat up there, though, as they found two plastic chairs, a table, and some dead potted plants already there. Henry felt that this "was a private oasis which caught the sun all day long" (151). Phin and Henry took half a blotter (the "tiny squares of paper" Phin bought at Kensington Market) and observed "the people sitting in their gardens, the boats idling down the Thames, the view of the power station on the other side of the river" (152). The boys felt more relaxed, and the hallucinations kicked in. Henry started to question the greenness of the leaves in the trees and if Phin's skin was really white. They behaved in an animalistic way. Phin even said that he was a...