The Night Wanderer

Content Warning: This section of the guide contains descriptions of suicidal ideation and suicide.

Tiffany is forced to take an hour-long walk home. She daydreams about Tony’s car ending up in the lake and then thinks about her mother, who now lives in Edmonton with her white boyfriend. Claudia has tried to keep in contact with Tiffany, but Tiffany has refused to engage, feeling betrayed. Now, a car approaches, and Tiffany jumps down in the ditch so that she will not be seen and questioned. She thinks about how bad her life has become in such a brief time.

Meanwhile, Pierre runs extremely quickly through the forest, exhilarated by the air even as he is weakened by his lack of food. He is determined to finish his life well and change himself; he plans to complete a “ceremony” on a flat stone high up above the lake, where he once performed a vision quest to become a man. He thinks of being a teenager in France, where he was isolated and lonely; he was unable to return home and was forced to perform his culture for the French people. His only positive experience was a servant girl with green eyes who was friendly with him.