How I Live Now Part 1 / Chapter 26 Summary

  • Daisy and Piper arrive at Gateshead, but it's eerily quiet and smells like death.
  • Daisy stumbles upon seventeen dead bodies—men, women, children—and has to inspect each; the only one she recognizes is Dr. Jameson.
  • Piper finds her goat in a barn, but he's starving, covered in excrement, and unable to even drink water. Daisy covers him and shoots him in the head.
  • They return to the cousins' house, which is now empty, and go to the barn where they once camped, which looks strangely untouched.