How It All Goes Down
Pressia (Gray Eyes)
- Shifting back to Pressia's point of view: she sees Partridge go out to the middle of the street. She shouts at him to get out, and he seems relieved to see someone that isn't a beast.
- He approaches her and the first thing that comes to her mind is the creepy song about burning a Pure and taking its body parts to make things.
- Partridge asks her if she can take him to 1054 Lombard Street.
- After he retrieves her shoe for her with his superhuman speed, she agrees to find a map for him if he follows her to Bradwell's house.
- Throughout their conversations, she builds up guilt in him for being a Pure, giving her leverage in their newfound relationship.
- They see an OSR truck; Partridge reveals that they used to be called Operation Search and Rescue. Pressia makes him feel guilty for being educated, too.
- She asks him why he's outside the Dome, and he says that he's looking for "home."
- They decide to walk through the Rubble Field to avoid going through the streets. Pressia advises Partridge to follow her every move and not scream if he's grabbed by a Dust.
- And of course, he's grabbed by a Dust… and screams.
- Pressia tries to help him, but the only way he can defeat the Dust is to be brought down under the earth and fight it himself.
- Instead, he uses his super-strength to actually pull it out from underneath the earth (Pressia has never seen this before, and didn't think it was possible).
- After an epic battle-royal, Partridge is able to stab the Dust in its one human spot (on its chest) with his knife.
- The kids are all right. For now.