Solaris Chapter 13 Summary

Victory

  • Weeks pass and Rheya and Kelvin plan their lives on Earth.
  • One night Kelvin hears Rheya get out of bed and talk to someone and leave.
  • But when he wakes up she's there and says she didn't leave.
  • She says she doesn't want to talk about going to Earth anymore. They talk and he says he loves her and she cries; then she gives him a drink, which tastes bitter.
  • Kelvin wakes up… and yep, Rheya's gone.
  • Kelvin has a fit, but eventually he calms down and comes to himself in Snow's room.
  • Snow tells him Rheya is dead.
  • Kelvin accuses Snow of getting Rheya to give him the sleeping pill and setting it all up, but Snow gives him a note from Rheya, which shows that she wanted to be destroyed.
  • They zapped her with the destabilizer, which mucked up her neutrinos. Or something like that.
  • Anyway, Snow explains that the visitors don't come back since the day that the ocean got all agitated.
  • The two of them argue: Kelvin wants to destroy the planet now that it's taken Rheya away, but Snow feels like contact is still possible.
  • They plan to write a report and Snow convinces Kelvin that the ocean probably just created Rheya without any malevolent intent.
  • And Snow plans to stay on Solaris, much to Kelvin's shock.