Chapter 10 and Epilogue Summary

Sookan and Inchun go back to the train station and meet up with the man who works there. He gives them special tickets which will be a signal to his friend the conductor. The man gives them instructions for where they need to go to get across the border, which is very nearby. The children get in the correct ticket line, and the conductor whispers that they should go to the back end of the train, where they must crawl underneath the train to the other side of the tracks. Then they must cross a cornfield, lying down still every time a searchlight passes over the field. It is muddy, so Sookan takes off her shoes so that they will make less noise as she runs, but the freshly-cut cornstalks cut into her bare feet. The children are confused...