However, he objected to the system, so he created the underground refuge and left clues to its location in the Farms for any children who managed to escape. When Emma answers the telephone in the underground complex, she hears a recording left by William Minerva saying his real name is James Ratri and that he was associated with the farms. In one room they find a telephone, and when it rings, Emma answers the call and hears Minerva at the other end of the line. The children discover several secret passageways in the building, one behind a piano leading to a storage complex and one where the word "HELP" is scrawled across the walls.
They also find a radio which they can use to monitor transmissions from the Houses. The base has everything they need, including external surveillance cameras and the children realize that they could stay indefinitely. Ray uses Minerva's pen to locate an underground complex equipped with food, accommodation, and running water. The children arrive at the coordinates, but see nothing. He then returns to the forest and kills the demons which had pursued the children, obliterating evidence of their passage. Later, Sonju reveals to Mujika that he plans to eat the progeny of the children in the future if they breed and multiply. The children then head into a wasteland towards William Minerva's coordinates. Emma is distressed by the process, but hides her emotions when she returns to the caves with food for the children.Īt the edge of the forest, the children part ways with Sonju and Mujika who gives Emma an amulet to remember them by. Emma goes hunting with Sonju and he teaches her to kill living animals and then preserve them by using a vampiric plant called Vida which drains blood, as part of a ritual called Gupna.
Gilda and Don confront Emma and Ray about their tendency to hide their problems and persuade them to be more open with the other children. As the children prepare to leave, they are trained by Sonju and Mujika in the skills needed to survive the wilderness. However, Sonju warns them that as escapees, the children will not be welcome in the human world. Thousands of years ago, humans and demons fought a long war which eventually ended with the humans and demons making peace and agreeing to live in their own separate "worlds" the demon world, with several Houses breeding human offerings to appease the demons and a separate human world. Sonju tells Emma and Ray about the history of their world. They explain that for religious reasons, they do not eat humans in order to survive and that they are freelancers unassociated with the Houses. Ray and Emma reunite when they awake in a cavern, but Ray soon realizes that the woman and man who saved them are both demons.Įmma and Ray are reunited with the other children, and the female demon, Mujika, and the male demon, Sonju, reassure them that they are not like regular demons. Meanwhile, Emma and the children encounter a hooded woman who takes them to her sanctuary. He is saved when a hooded figure on horseback rescues him. Three demons kill the monster, but they continue to chase Ray after he states that he is the highest-scoring child of the House and the only survivor. They are found and pursued by a giant demonic beast, and are forced to split up with Emma leading the children towards Minerva’s location while Ray distracts the monster. Using the map, Ray determines Minerva's location and the children use information in their textbooks to help them survive. They discover that a pen given to them by Norman belonged to William Minerva and contains a holographic map with coded messages referring to text in the House textbooks. Emma, Ray, and the escaped children of Grace Field House continue their journey on foot through a dark forest.
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