Fuse Chapter 8 Summary

How It All Goes Down

Pressia (Cadet)

  • Bradwell suggests Pressia ask Fignan about her parents. She doesn't have the nerve to.
  • Bradwell also realizes that Pressia was probably fluent in Japanese, since she was raised there. She just doesn't remember it.
  • A knock on the door: an officer is calling Bradwell because El Capitan ("Cap" as Bradwell refers to him) wants to see him.
  • Pressia randomly remembers the words Seven swans a-swimming. Okay, so we recognize this as the lyrics from the "Twelve Days Of Christmas," but this has a weird undertone of significance in her situation.
  • Pressia asks Fignan about her parents, and its arm darts out and pulls her hair.
  • She snoops around Bradwell's office a little bit, and then takes down the newspaper clippings.
  • The article reads: International Cadet's Drowning Ruled Accident. The boy's name was Ivan Novikov.
  • Hmm. Aribelle said "Ivan" was one of The Seven back in Pure.
  • Pressia reads the rest of the article. Apparently Ellery Willux, who was another Cadet, tried to save him. This was all recalled by another person, Cadet Walrond.
  • Okay so let's go over this: we know Ellery Willux and Ivan were in The Seven, and Cadet Walrond was a friend of Bradwell's parents.
  • By the way: Seven swans a-swimming. Think about it in conjunction with the article. These people were all swimming, and they referred to themselves as swans.
  • Bradwell finally walks in on Pressia talking out loud to Fignan. He tells her he's going to the city to check out the girl El Capitan found.
  • Pressia tells him that she's going with him.