After being taken back down to his living quarters S. thinks of the woman he met at the tavern and decides she is definitely Sola. He thinks back to how “she gave no shriek of alarm, [and] no cry for help” when S. was taken by “a hideous, scarified wretch.” He cannot comprehend why she would say nothing but from the reader’s perspective, she likely said nothing because the abduction was part of a greater plan which S. will not know of for years to come.

Eric and Jen connect the situation to the real world. While S. struggles to see how Sola would silently let something that terrible happen to him, Jen talks about how “you might be right to trust someone at one point…but they can change.” She is referring to her relationship with Jacob, her ex-boyfriend. This might also act as Dorst’s foreshadowing for the change the reader will see in Sola the next time S. encounters her. He always envisions her a certain way because that is how he remembers her but she changes over time.  When S. sees Sola for the first time after his abduction, her face is undeniably hers but she has changed and aged.  Not only that but her name is different along with her identity in the outside world.