Summary

In Chapter 48, the group spends its third night in the open locked in the jail area of a police station. They all feel claustrophobic in the enclosed area. When they turn off the last of their flashlights the darkness is so heavy that Justineau feels as if God hadn’t even bothered to create light.

In Chapter 49, Melanie thinks about her future. She knows there is no group into which she will be accepted once the people she is with reach Beacon. She considers herself as being like Aeneas who will have to go and discover a new Rome.

In Chapter 50, there is a miracle in store for the group, particularly Caldwell, on the fourth day of their journey. It is raining and everyone is in a sour mood. Their food is gone and they are running low on e-blocker gel. Caldwell has...