Section 8: The Walk, pages 460-513 Summary

Laying in bed, Ora worried Ilan was thinking about leaving again and warned him he would not have a place to stay because it would tear Adam apart. In the next wave of fear, he embraced Ora and admitted he was afraid of the unborn baby because he felt his personality was already fully formed. When he wondered whether they should tell him about Avram, Ora admitted she did each night. Both worried about raising Ofer, but both were excited at the idea of caring for Avram's child. As Ora writes in her notebook, Avram startles her when he awakes and asks if Ofer looks like him, so Ora describes Ofer in detail for the first time to Avram. Avram asks to join Ora, and when she agrees, he climbs into her sleeping bag, and...