How It All Goes Down
Partridge (Piano)
- Partridge is pretty done with this house, so he decides to open the door to his room. Except it won't open. It's locked from the inside.
- Luckily, he's able to find a piece of plastic that allows him to turn the knob. He exits the room, and walks into a nice room with paintings and a wool carpet.
- In the kitchen, Mimi is making muffins. In the other room, Iralene is "playing" the piano. Ah, what a nice family.
- But then he steps on the wool rug. It still feels like cement. It's fake; in fact, the whole house is fake. The only thing that isn't fake is the piano.
- Partridge decides to explore a little bit, and he runs into a rooms labeled Specimen One and Two, Specimen Three and Four. He opens one up and finds huge capsules labeled Iralene Willux and Mimi Willux.
- The capsules are cryogenic chambers to keep them young.
- So maybe Iralene isn't sixteen, which is what Partridge originally thought. And she's definitely real.
- Mimi is in her chamber, but Iralene isn't. He decides to go into the dark basement because he's Partridge and he has tons of common sense.
- But what do you know: Iralene is actually in the basement.
- He tries to talk her into escaping with him, but it's no use. She knows she's going to stay.
- But she does give him a uniform to wear to "fit in," and the key to unlock his electric shock neck-brace.
- He climbs out the window at the end of the chapter, pleading her to come with him. She doesn't, so he climbs out, only to see a building with dark windows.