Summary

Part VIII: Air Pocket opens with Chapter 17/The You File as you wake shattered in the morning after your dreams battered you all night. Although you plead for help and even pray to God, something stays with you and may never leave. When a voice wonders who you are and where you've been, you are not sure, but you truthfully answer that you are here.

In Chapter 18/Dusty Ground, the lack of camaraderie amongst Jane's group as they head toward Kiryandongo causes them to agree to a short visit so they can reach Kampala by that night. Esther watches as the journalists finally arrive, and after their tour of the facility, Jane is brought to speak to the girls. She first talks to fifteen-year-old Paulette whose baby by a rebel is due in a month, and when Esther tells Jane that Paulette...