Chapters 10 and 11 Summary

Chapter 10 - When Connie, Skip, Sybil and the others are moved to their new ward, they discover Alice Blue Bottom already there and that she has already had a round of surgery which she says involved putting electrical nodules in her brain. A desperate visit to Luciente in search of support results in Connie becoming aware that drinking coffee is almost ritualized, and that she is living (according to Barbarossa) at "a certain crux in history ... forces are in conflict. Technology is imbalanced ... alternate futures are equally or almost equally probable ... and that affects ... the shape of time." Bee then urges Connie to continue to struggle for freedom and enlightenment, telling her that he and the others have to continue fighting "to be the future that happens. That's why we reached you." When the confused Connie returns to the present, Alice...