Summary

Chapter 13 – In the middle of everything else that’s going on, Sean is surprised by the unexpected, unannounced rival of Kimmy. There is an interjection of some of Sean’s game commentary (which refers to a towering structure emerging from earthquake-shaken ground), and a reference to it having been an early piece of writing that Sean has never sent to anyone, even though he feels that what he sends instead feels, to the players, like a substitute (here he inserts a comment from Lance’s gameplay that seems to suggest exactly that, and which also references his gameplay choice to “gather bones”). Narration then shifts to Sean’s recollection of Kimmy’s visits when he was in hospital: how she was the only friend who came regularly, and who seemed unfazed by his appearance; how she kept asking what he did and...