The two strangers introduce themselves as renegades, namely Drake and Elliott. With no alternative but to do what they are told, Will and Chester comply with these demands. A man speaks, telling them to bury the gum, and then to come with them. Before he unwraps it, knives are put at both boys' throats. Will's abnormal behavior takes over again, and he asks for a piece of chewing gum. Shortly thereafter, they witness the execution of a group of Coprolites by a patrol of Styx Limiters. The section ends with Rebecca cheering the doves on to "Fly, fly, fly!".Īfter his brother's death, Will is beside himself with grief, and Chester becomes increasingly concerned about the strange way he is acting. Attached to the leg of each bird is a small metal ball which, when melted by the sun, will release a small amount of a non-deadly form of the virus that the Styx have been working on. Will and Chester discover that the boy isn't breathing, but they are forced to flee the cavern in order to save their own lives.īack at Topsoil, it is dawn in England, and Rebecca and a squad of Styx are on the rooftop of Admiralty Arch, overlooking Trafalgar Square, with baskets of doves. As he stumbles, Cal touches one of these organisms, then collapses. Sarah is then escorted to the Styx Garrison where she rests, is given military training, and is also subjected to sermons from The Book of Catastrophes.Ĭoncerned that their food supplies are running low, Will and Chester follow Cal down into an opening of the floor of the Great Plain, where Cal enters a cavern filled with unidentified pipe-like organisms. Grandma Macaulay has been persuaded by the Styx that Will was responsible for Tam's demise, and she is full of vengeance and asks Sarah to exact revenge on the boy. Sarah is taken to see her mother, Grandma Macaulay, in her old home. Burrows packs up and leaves, continuing further into the Deeps, keeping his notebook with him at all times. Having been left provisions by the Coprolites before they moved camp to a safer location, Dr. Sadly for them, a special detachment of the Styx called Limiters has been killing them. He has been accepted by a strange, gentle group of people called Coprolites. Finally, they explain that Cal and Bartleby shared a strong bond, and, because of his love for Cal, Bartleby would be able to track him down anywhere.įinally, Dr. Rebecca tells her that she knows where Will is, and that he is forcing Cal to come with him, and, if she doesn't act soon, Will might also kill him. There, a few days later, Rebecca and the Styx show up and make her believe for sure that Will killed Tam. Soon, she is acquainted with a much skinnier, much weaker Bartleby, who takes her to a hiding place. Burrows quickly realizes the fake, forcing Sarah to flee. However, when her fear that Will actually killed Tam clouds her judgment, Mrs. Burrows, who currently is residing at Humphrey House. Sarah adopts a disguise, allowing her to become a woman who has the authority to interview a deranged Mrs. Inside the house they find evidence that Will's stepfather, Dr. Having escaped detection at the station, they travel further into the Deeps, where they are attacked by carnivorous bats and are forced to take shelter in an old, deserted house. The train passes through a series of storm gates (gates designed to block powerful winds from inside the earth) and, on the final approach to the Miners' Station, the three boys jump from it. Will's younger brother, Cal, is also with them. Will and Chester are overjoyed to be reunited once again as the Miners' Train travels down through the Earth on its way to the Deeps.
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