On land again, Sierra goes to rejoin her friends. Her thoughts turn to Robbie and what a powerful shadowshaper he is. Sierra is grateful for all the help that he’s given her, and she knows she has more she can learn from him. After everything that’s happened, Sierra realizes her feelings for Robbie and can’t wait to find him and kiss him: “She wasn’t even concerned about whether or not he’d kiss her back—of course he would. She was his match: a child of spirit just like him, a fellow traveler in the mystical Brooklyn labyrinth” (226). However, when Sierra finally finds her friends, they tell her the corpuscules have taken Robbie. 

Back at their house, Sierra and Juan try to figure out who could have told Wick they would be at Coney Island. Sierra thinks it might be one of the shadowshapers, but Juan points out it could have been one of Sierra’s friends. Sierra storms upstairs to confront Grandpa Lázaro, but she finds him sleeping peacefully. When she inspects his photograph, she sees half the faces have been smudged out.