Part IV The Talisman, Chapters 34-36 Summary

Part IV opens with Chapter 34, 'Anders' during which Richard goes into the Territories for the first time and they find the rail road that will take them through the Blasted Lands to the Talisman. To begin with, Richard is in a state of hysteria as e still believes that a drug gang, with rabid dogs is chasing them. Jack resorts to slapping him to get him to understand that they have jumped into a different world. Richard decides instead to believe that he must either be freakishly ill or that he has a brain tumour and that this is all a hallucination.

Jack takes Richard to the shack that the Depot has transformed into in the Territories. Here he meets Anders, an older man with a large beard who at first curses Jack...