. While it has been raining hard all day Eloise is completely dry, this surprises Miriam. Miriam is surprised that no one in the village has talked to them. Miriam and Clare go out for groceries and the shopkeeper shows great interest in them when he finds out they live in the Queen's house. Miriam interrogates the gatekeeper. He tells her to be careful where she walks. There is a category A sex offender around. The cat is gone, they go out to look for it. Clare is fighting with everyone, she goes out for a walk. The cat has been in the parlour all the time. Return of the men: silently and they have no shadow. The men leave a basket filled with mushrooms. Miriam throws them away. Miriam looks for the brochures Eloise claims the men left her, they aren't there. Clare is walking through the woods wishing out loud she was dead. The sex offender hears her. The watches sacrifice male flesh (the sex offender). Eloise comes in with a baby, they wonder if she was pregnant without showing it and take her to a doctor. She can breastfeed, meaning she must have been pregnant. The doctor was already on his way when Simon was getting him. 'Someone' told him that they live on the border with Wales. The baby has a pale face, green eyes, silvery hair (all human babies have blue eyes on birth). They consider the nurse to be inhuman. Clare suggests going back to the city, Eloise doesn't want that. Eloise notices nothing but the baby, she doesn't even respond to questions about Moonbird. Clare and Miriam go for a walk, they smell something dead while walking and they find a half devoured man. The cat is afraid of the baby: it look likes it knows too much. They are suspicious about the social workers, they are also dry while it's raining. The baby cries for the first time. The police calls, warns them about the sex offender; lock doors and windows at night. Clare tries to justify Eloise's odd behaviour by thinking the raper attacked her. They go to a bar at...
