Summary

The chapter opens with Jeffrey knocking on the doors of the facility. He comes across the monitor and watches a fire blaze across a town. He then sees many people wearing facemasks and shuffling in mass. He spots a woman exiting a room and follows her. He eventually turns down a corridor and enter an exterior walled garden. He sits next to a man named Ben-Ezra who refers to Jeffrey as “the son (123). Ben-Ezra explains to Jeffrey that eventually, years in the future, he will sit on this bench again; the ivy may be the same or different, due to time. They speak about Ross, and Ben-Ezra tells Jeffrey that he could convince Ross not to be frozen. Jeffrey doubts that will work. They speak about the isolation of the facility. Ben-Ezra explains that isolation is not a drawback, but it is the...