Summary

This chapter consists of a series of columns of first person narration.

Saturn – The first column in the chapter is empty: a blank page.

Little Merced – Scientific investigation proves that Saturn is gone, and there is no residue of him left in El Monte. As life in the town gets back to normal, Federico, Froggy, and Sandra continue to arm themselves and keep watch.

Julieta – Julieta finds traces of Sandra around the house she shares with Froggy, and has a particularly difficult time handling the fact that he still has the EMF tattoo Sandra gave him on his neck (the tattoo resembles the writing in “The Book of Incandescent Light”). Julieta is not comforted by Froggy’s reassurances that he no longer thinks of Sandra as anything other but a comrade in war, and finds herself licking the tattoo...