- Connie thinks the nurses treat them like they're in grade school.
- She remembers grade school, and especially her brother Luis teaching them to use an English accent. He'd hit them if they got it wrong.
- Then she bops over to remembering how she met her husband Claud in a bar when she was looking for Eddie to pay her child support.
- Time drags… and more time drags.
- Another inmate tells Connie that they've taken Sybil for electroshock.
- Connie is angry so she gets out of line for lunch to sit on her couch and they throw her into seclusion. Because they are awful.
- She remembers more times with Claud and Angie, and is thoroughly miserable.
- Whoops; off to the future right here in the middle of the chapter.
- In the future, Luciente takes Connie to see a child named Innocente get ready to take her own name.
- They're going to drop her in the forest and she has to make her way back; then she takes a new name and doesn't talk to her mothers for three months.
- Innocente is only about 11. Hmm. Dumping fifth graders into the woods for fun? That sounds horrible.
- Connie and the future people chat. Connie tells them she hurt her child and feels fragmented and they say maybe Diana (Luciente's sweetie) could heal her.
- Jackrabbit says he felt similarly fragmented when he was supposed to pick his own aim; he ended up in a madhouse where he got healed.
- Future madhouses work better than past madhouses. Some sci-fi futures have faster than light travel; some have better-working asylums.
- Jackrabbit flirts with White Oak, who's much older than him. Connie is a little scandalized. Jackrabbit flirts with everyone (that's part of why he's named Jackrabbit).
- They decide to take Connie to the children's house, which she's really excited about.