How It All Goes Down
Risa
- Risa survived the explosion, too, but she's in terrible shape, "riddled with steel pins like a human voodoo doll" (7.67.3).
- Connor comes to visit, and Risa explains that she's paralyzed from the waist down.
- The law prohibits unwinding the disabled, so it's a loophole, and they both get to live. Yay.
- Connor reveals his arm—a.k.a. Roland's arm—and says he'll never touch her with it.
- She takes the arm and holds the hand to her face.
- "I know this is your hand now," she says. "Roland would never have touched me like that" (7.67.28).