Daniel is in class, writing more of his story. Driven by curiosity, the Daniel in his book goes into the attic that his father had warned him to stay out of. He finds an old computer and sees a switch on it, which he flicks on. He then presses “Y” to the question, “INITIATE SPATIAL SHIFT?” (86). Nothing much seems to happen, so fictional Daniel leaves the attic. When he realizes he hasn’t switched the switch back he returns to the attic to find that he has set in train a process, which he cannot reverse from that computer. This action eliminated all the people in the world. To reverse this, he needs to find a man named Charles Oliver, whose details were printed from the computer.

At school, Max reveals that Taj attempted to kiss Raya after the dance, but she said “no.” Daniel feels better, and he meets Sara after school. Sara admits to not talking to “normal” people but can speak to Daniel because he is “not normal.” Sara also elaborates on what it means to be a Star Child: someone “of special intelligence and a pure heart” (93), and who has some alien DNA. Finally, she admits to having been diagnosed with depression, general anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, and mild schizophrenia.