The Rabbit Hutch

Content Warning: This section mentions animal and human sacrifice.

A teenager in C12 at the Rabbit Hutch has been watching Malik, Jack, and Todd. He admires the boys and is intimidated by them at the same time, thinking that they might have been friends in another life. He finds that “the walls of the Rabbit Hutch are so thin, you can hear everyone’s lives progress like radio plays” (354).

Meanwhile, in C8, Hope tells her husband that she is afraid of their son Elijah’s eyes. Anthony laughs because everyone says that Elijah has Hope’s eyes.

In apartment C4, a text detailing St. Teresa’s transverberation, when her heart was pierced by an angel, is taped beside Blandine’s bed. It is a visceral, evocative passage, and she has it memorized by the time she exits her body on July 17. Although she is only 18, Blandine has been waiting her entire life for this to happen.

In C2, Joan is haunted by Penny’s warning about the man who has been following her. Still, she is distracted by the screaming and drumming from C4 upstairs, where the animal sacrifice is taking place. When she hears Blandine’s scream, she finds that she cannot intervene.