Summary

In Chapter 32, Caldwell has developed a fever that has become worse because she has gotten dehydrated while walking. She turns her mind from her own illness and instead thinks about the things she’s learned about the hungries first hand. Based on her new information about how the hungries feed, she thinks she needs to look more closely at the hypothalamus.

When they reach Stevenage, Parks tells his group he and Gallagher will go in first and scope out the city, and then come back for the civilians. Justineau and Caldwell together talk him out of that plan as they make him realize that his plan is actually more dangerous than it would be for all of them to go into the city together. Parks agrees when he sees the two are right and tells them how to move slowly around the hungries...