Chapter 3: The Wild

Chapter 3: The Wild begins on Wednesday morning as Kai enters the Wilderness to go swimming with Miu. She has to search first for their meeting place, a secret swimming hole, and along the way she encounters a mysterious white deer. After a brief meeting the deer bolts, showing Kai the right route in the process.

Kai finds Miu, and they spend time swimming and talking. There are hints about the day's date being significant to Miu, but no explanation, and eventually the conversation subsides, and they part ways. Kai returns to the village and speaks with Nonno, who drops more hints about the day's significance and asks her to replant the East Garden. Kai does so, and Miu is deeply moved by the gesture and its timing. They talk again, and by evening Miu seems invigorated, talking in vague terms about her plans to give Spike and Claire a push towards each other.

That night Kai has unsettling of Karoo, Manii's poem, and the Mall's entrance, and as she wakes she discovers a large beatle crawling on her in her sleep, and she shouts, waking Nonno.

When they've both gotten up for the day, Kai goes with Nonno as he leaves the house for the first time since his illness began. They go to the Bath House for him to freshen up, and he and Ailin begin talking about Ailin's pregnancy.

The chapter ends on Thursday morning as Ailin sends Kai off to grow Coroca while she and Nonno talk.

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