How It All Goes Down
- Lena is freaking out because Alex saw her holding hands with that sweaty little worm Brian.
- After dinner, she goes to 37 Brooks Street and sees that all of her and Alex's stuff is gone.
- She leaves Alex a note in the Governor's hand to meet her at midnight.
- He does meet her at 37 Brooks, where he's set up a nice little nest for them to lie in and watch the stars.
- Since she doesn't have much time left, he suggests that they run away into the Wilds together… and never come back.
- Lena's scared to do this because she doesn't want to end up like her mother—you know, insane.
- She talks about her mother for four or five pages, before she mentions a pin her mother wore: a "long, silver dagger-thing, with two bright jewels in the hilt, like eyes" (20.67).
- Alex is in shock. Not because that sounds like the tackiest pin ever sold on QVC, but because he's seen it before. "Lena […] I think your mother is alive" (20.83), he says. Gulp.