Hunting by Stars

The women hijack the wooden boxes and lift them into their cars. Miig tries to reason with them but realizes that they are monstrous, despite their smell of perfume and soap. As soon as the women open the boxes, they inject French and the others with a sedative. When French wakes up, he and the family are chained and caged in a shed-like space that is part of an abandoned amusement park called the Leisure Dome. The women have left the train’s conductor and one of the nurses, Theo, tied up at the station. As the family begins to discuss what has happened, Wab asks French if Mitch has betrayed them. French wants to tell everyone the truth about what happened to Mitch, but Miig stops him, implying that now is not the time for French to tell that story.

Two of the MOMS, Shirley-Rachel and Kelsey, enter the barn. They are drunk, and although the group leaders have ordered them not to touch the family, they are impatient to obtain some marrow. They decide to take one person for extraction, and they choose Zheegwon. They are in the process of opening the numeric bike lock on Zheegwon’s chain when Miig intervenes and offers himself instead, claiming that as an experienced Elder, his marrow will have more dreams than Zheegwon’s.