How It All Goes Down
- To camouflage their secret "Guests" (14.1), Antonina and Jan keep the zoo populated with many legal visitors. Their strategy is to hide people in plain sight.
- Antonina takes on the role of hostess, doing all the added chores and finding a way to provide extra food.
- Jan, meanwhile, hides material for bombs underground.
- The biggest challenge is dealing with Ryś.
- Antonina teaches Ryś never to talk about the Guests to anyone, because if he does, everyone in the house will be murdered.
- We've played the Quiet Game before, but never under penalty of death if we lost.
- Remember back in Chapter 11, when we said to place your bets for when Ryś's pig would be slaughtered?
- That happens now. German soldiers drag Moryś away to be butchered. He's some pig.