Monday, March 11, 2013

The Host: Day 18--Chapters 39 and 40

Chapter 39:
"It was Wes's...reaction to you that surprised me. I didn't know he had so much depth to him. I was never really aware of him before that. Oh, well. He's too young for me, but what does that matter here? It's strange how life and love go on. I didn't expect that." Lily and Wes are a couple now.

Chapter 40:
"I didn't know how to mourn here." Wanda walked into the hospital wing. There were a couple of dead human bodies, covered up. There were also bodies of souls on the table. Dead. Tortured. One of them was a child. Wanda saw this, and it freaked her out. She sees the humans as monsters now. Can you blame her?

"You're one of us, Ian. Her enemy. Did you hear what she said in there? She was screaming monsters. That's how she sees us now. She doesn't want your comfort."

"I sat in the blackness of the big hole in the ground and grieved for lost souls with a human by my side." Ian sat down in the tunnel near her. He gave her space and quiet so that she could grieve.

This chapter just saddens me. I can't imagine the emotions that Wanda was feeling when she walked into the hospital wing.

---Amelia

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