Fuse Chapter 4 Summary

Pressia (Seven)

• Pressia is with Bradwell in a morgue. This is where Bradwell lives: mmm, romantic.
• There are newspaper clippings and The Message taped on the wall.
• The bell that Pressia gave Bradwell at the end of Pure is being used as a paperweight. Oh, come on man: do you love her or not?
• As they're walking around, one of the Black Boxes motors past their feet like a dog. This is so weird.
• Bradwell then shows Pressia the rest of the Black Boxes: Alfie, Barb, Champ, Dickens, Elderberry, and, of course, Fignan,
• Yep, he named them all.
• But wait, the boxes have brains: inside them, they've stored history. That's right, ancient history, cultural history, everything.
• Except for Fignan: he stores secret history.
• If you ask the box anything, it will answer it for you; for example, Bradwell asks one what the universe is, and it projects a beam of light showing the planets and moons orbiting the sun.
• But what's going on with Fignan? Well, one day Bradwell was rambling on about Pressia to the boxes (because he talks to them like they're people), and Fignan opened. It started beeping, repeating the word seven.
• After some brainstorming, or should we say, arguing, Bradwell decides to talk about Pressia to Fignan again. But with Pressia in the room. Because this is totally a flirtation technique.
• He mentions her eyes and her hair and gets all gushy. He tells her he may or may not have mentioned her lips too. Aww, yeah.
• But then he remembers: he mentioned the swan pendant too.
• At the sound of "swan," Fignan light ups and repeats the word. Seven seven seven seven seven seven seven. Like the countdown of a game show.
• Bradwell doesn't understand, but Pressia believes it has something to do with The Seven people who have the scars on their chests.
• That's right, that small group formed from The Best and the Brightest—the group we learned about in Pure.
• At this, Bradwell says, "Ellery Willux." A green light blinks. He then says "Aribelle Cording." Another green light.
• Pressia adds "Hideki Imanaka," which turns on another green light. This gives her more hope about her father, who she hasn't met yet.
• The problem is, they can't figure out who the last four are. Caruso, the man who Aribelle lived with, probably knew. But El Capitan and Bradwell found out that he killed himself.
• Bradwell is pumped up, but Pressia gets mad at this and yells at him to focus on the suffering in the present. What a Debby Downer.
• To segue from this awkwardness, Bradwell decides to show Pressia a dead body… which is a fantastic way to impress a girl.
• The body is of a fifteen-year-old boy who was fused to a tricycle when the Detonations hit. His cause of death: his leg exploded and he bled out. A box filled with metal and plastic was found near him.
• Bradwell believes the Dome killed him.