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How I Live Now Part 2 / Chapter 5 Summary

  • Piper met Jonathan through a farm cooperative, and he lives with them now.
  • Piper tells Daisy what happened with Edmond, all those years ago.
  • Edmond and Isaac spent several months at Gateshead before catching wind of upcoming violence; they tried to warn the others, but no one would act.
  • Isaac wanted them to to leave anyway, but Edmond thought they'd be dooming the others to death if they left.
  • An argument ensued, and Isaac won out, but Edmond couldn't live with what he knew would happen, so eventually Isaac kept moving and left Edmond behind.
  • Isaac returned to the house two days after Daisy left (which breaks her heart).
  • Edmond went back to Gateshead, still couldn't convince the others to leave, and eventually left.
  • The Enemy found him and kept him a month, but he eventually escaped and came home.
  • All he's been doing since then, though, is sitting and gardening.
  • Daisy realizes he must have witnessed the massacre.