Summary

Ben is dictating to his recorder again at the start of Chapter 8. He lays out his and Ashley’s situation with the new information the GPS presented. They are in desperate need of food, and Ashley’s injuries continue to worry Ben. Her leg is severely swollen, and her pain is only just kept in check with a few pain pills, of which Ben is running low. With their situation once again lain out, Ben starts talking about his past with his wife Rachel again, speaking directly to her through the recorder. Ben says that Rachel was “the first to put together the pieces of me” (81). Rachel was the first one to tell Ben that he would make a good doctor. Ben says that she saw only the best in him. He claims that while "staring out across this ice-capped landscape. . . I am...