How It All Goes Down
Pressia (Snowman)
- On the way to find El Capitan, Pressia asks Bradwell how he got the scars on his face.
- Oh, he just got attacked by groupies when he was younger. No biggie.
- Sometimes you find the weirdest things, just looking out the windows. Pressia sees a snowman. Then she sees a spider on the snowman.
- Oh god: now there are so many spiders. They're all over the car too.
- Bradwell punches the gas of the car and it shakes off the spiders. They make sure to yell at El Capitan for not explaining that they were robot spiders.
- They're now in the area that Pressia grew up in. She remembers counting telephone poles and saying Itchy knee. Sun, she go. She doesn't understand why.
- Pressia brings up how Bradwell has been using the bell as a paperweight.
- When they reach El Capitan they talk about the spiders: they're probably how the dead boy got his leg blown off.
- El Capitan shows them to Wilda; he points out Margit and Margit's blind friend, but no one cares about those Dome worshippers.
- Then Wilda recites the message. It's pretty hard for her to let out and she starts crying in the middle, but here's the message in its entirety:
- We want our son returned. This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.
- She then makes a cross on the center of her chest and marks it with a circle.
- Margit and the blind girl start going bananas, saying they need to find the son so that they can all be saved, while Wilda starts screaming the message over and over.
- Somebody control these crazy kids.
- Luckily, Pressia is there to save the day. She lets Wilda hold her doll-hand, and then rocks her back and forth like a baby.
- While all of this is going on, Bradwell and El Capitan are thinking about The New Message, along with The Message. They both have twenty-nine words in them.