Summary

In “The NPC”, Marx is in the hospital in a medically induced coma and envisions himself as a bird dipping down to eat strawberries. He hears Sadie call herself his wife and his is unsure when she agreed to marry him after refusing multiple proposals. On the day of the shooting, he was at the Unfair Games office meeting with Charlotte and Adam Worth. When he heard a bang, he did not immediately register it as a gunshot. The receptionist called and said someone was there for Mazer. When he entered the lobby, “a white boy, dressed in black, with a red bandanna tied around the lower half of his face [was] holding a small gun” to the receptionist’s head (292). Marx attempted to buy time for his employees to get to the roof and asked why the boy...