Summary

Chapter 15. One Saturday, Sequoyah and Rosemary take a couple of bicycles from the garage and ride down into the woods, Sequoyah finding himself unexpectedly excited. “… for me it was about undiscovered territory, full of strangeness and wonder riding down hills and plunging into unknown areas …” (193-4). Rosemary shows him the places where she likes to go to be alone, guided in part by a pink bandanna on a tree that she used to mark a turnoff. Meanwhile, in the quiet of the woods, Sequoyah starts to appreciate the idea and experience of solitude even more. When she dares him to pee in the creek, though, he refuses, and she leaves, telling him he is scared. Sequoyah follows.

When they get home, Rosemary asks Sequoyah whether he spies on her, commenting that she knows he has been watching her. He says he does not...