How It All Goes Down
Partridge (Cage)
- Partridge and Bradwell are making their way to the Meltlands by going through the market, but they want to make a quick pit stop at Pressia's place to check on her grandfather.
- While going through the marketplace, Partridge can't help but stare at the children he sees, since they don't have many in the Dome.
- When they reach Pressia's house, they find Freedle's birdcage empty on the ground, and the whole place is empty.
- Bradwell find the picture with 3-D glasses hung up on the wall; on the back of the picture is an original copy of "The Message," folded up.
- Partridge feels a chill on his arms because his father okayed The Message.
- Bradwell then picks up one of Pressia's butterflies, and imagines that the grandfather was taken.
- Partridge wonders if Freedle was freed (wordplay!).
- And then wonders if he really wishes he were back in the Dome or not.