How It All Goes Down
El Capitan (Pyre)
- El Capitan is pondering the meaning of Hastings. Is it a hidden message? Is it a name?
- Hint: It's a name.
- By the way, he's planning on keeping the whole Hastings encounter to himself.
- He approaches the people making what seems to be a pyre; three girls are sitting on the ground making up a song.
- One girl tells him that there is a girl with The New Message: proof that they can save them all.
- Oh brother, these people are Dome fanatics: people who worship the Dome because they think it's benevolent.
- El Capitan gets frustrated with their jibber-jabber, so he demands them to show him the girl.
- He also tells them to stop building the pyre, which they're planning on using for what seems like a sacrifice. The girls say they're preparing the girl with The New Message.
- Helmud doesn't like this. El Capitan can hear Helmud's penknife open.
- Anyway, just as he starts to leave with one of the girls, she tells him to look behind him: black spider-like creatures are crawling out of the Dome.
- Arachnophobia time.
- El Capitan knows he needs to get back to the group, but he needs to see this girl with The New Message.
- He learns the girl's name: it's Margit.
- They arrive at the house the girl with The New Message is in. She is claimed to have been made Pure, even though she wasn't born in the Dome.
- Margit tells him that her name is Wilda.
- El Capitan asks her if there's, "Something you want to tell me?" Helmud's hand suddenly appears holding a small boat made from wood. It's beautiful, and he is offering it to the girl as a gift. (7.86)
- Wilda accepts the gift as Helmud says, "Tell me… tell me." (7.87)