Summary

In Chapter 13, Ingrid confirms that when she "spills" during The Game it means that the person being challenged must spill the truth, not just tell stories. This helps the members derive ideas for books. Ingrid tells Ella that she herself had stolen a book from the library when she was a girl. Ingrid also tells Ella that the morphed books at the library are infected with a plague and it's best not to speak about them. Ella doesn't really understand but she accepts what Ingrid has told her. It is then Ella's turn to spill and Ingrid says that she wants information about Ella's father's death.

In Chapter 14, Ella sleeps for a week after playing the game. On the seventh day, she burns her teacher's bag complete with ungraded student essays because they are all infected. She had realized the papers...