Monday, October 3, 1988 approx.
Gretchen Ross arrives in Ms Pomeroy’s class
The class is reading Graham Greene’s "The Destructors" when a new girl walks in from the rain. Ms Pomeroy tells her to sit "next to the boy you think is the cutest". She sits next to Donnie.
Who is there
In Sparrow's terms
- The Destructors
- The 1954 Graham Greene short story Ms Pomeroy teaches, in which boys demolish a house and flood it. Donnie floods the school days later; Pomeroy is fired for teaching it.
- Manipulated Living
- The living people around the Receiver whose behaviour, without their knowledge, steers him toward returning the Artifact.
What happens at this moment.