Stolen Sections 81-85 Summary

Section Break 81

Back at the house, Ty gets Gemma a new t-shirt, making a joke about needing to concentrate on the situation. As a result, Gemma can't tell if the snakebite really is serious or if he's just joking to keep her from seeing how scared he is.
Ty begins wrapping her leg, muttering to himself about how stupid he was to let her get bit.
He tells her he stole antivenom from a research lab and goes to get the vials she saw him playing with in the kitchen.
He hooks up an IV of antivenom and tells her they need to wait until the bag is used up and she starts feeling better. He keeps telling her to calm down, but it's getting harder to listen to him—Gemma is sure he's keeping the seriousness of the situation from her.

The clock is ticking, and Gemma isn't feeling better. In fact, she's getting worse. Ty puts in the last vial of antivenom that he has and seems to be trying to convince himself that it will be enough to stop the swelling.
Unfortunately, the new container of antivenom doesn't work, either. Ty suspects that it's been too hot, and the heat has made the medicine ineffective. He says they have a choice—they can stay there and try some natural medicine that might help, or they can go back.
Ty decides to take Gemma to the mine site where they have an airstrip and can help. He doesn't want to take her back, but he also doesn't want her to die.

As they get ready to leave, Ty gives Gemma a ring he made for her out of emerald, red, and gold gemstones. Then, he cuts the legs off the kitchen table and uses it to mount a bed for her on the camel.
The plan is to take the camel to where they left the car and try to start it and then travel to the mine site. Understandably, Gemma is terrified of dying out in the desert.

Ty tells Gemma that this whole ordeal is going to hurt, which isn't exactly encouraging. He mounts her makeshift stretcher on the camel, and they begin the journey.
Ty gives Gemma something bitter to chew on, and she eventually passes out. She dreams she's back home, walking down her street. She goes to her house and looks in her bedroom window, where she sees herself as a 10-year-old, terrified at what she sees in the window.
Gemma tells her that it's okay and places a bird's nest on the windowsill. She realizes then that she is Ty putting the nest on the window but is also herself as a child looking out.

When Gemma wakes up, the camel is still moving, and she's hot and in pain and exhausted. Then, just when things couldn't get worse, they do: It starts pouring rain.
Ty makes a shelter among some rocks and trees and continues to try to make Gemma comfortable, trying to get her to stay awake and talk to him.
He tells her a story about rain—that in the desert, it's sacred, and when it rains, plants that haven't been seen for months come to life again.