![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At sunset, the man in the yellow suit appears at the Fosters' gate and asks Winnie if she knows everyone in Treegap. ![]() At noon on this day, Winnie sits inside her family's fence and tells a toad on the other side that she'd like to run away so she can be independent and do something important. Mae ignores this and the narrator explains that nothing can happen to Angus, Mae, or their sons, Jesse and Miles: they're all immortal. Her husband, Angus, isn't excited and assures Mae that he'll be fine while she's gone, as nothing can happen to him. On the first day of the first week of August, Mae Tuck wakes up, excited to go meet her sons in Treegap. Discovering this stream would be a disaster. The narrator insists that this is wise, as if a person were to go into the wood, they'd discover a huge ash tree and a spring coming from its roots. The wood is a strange place and it makes people want to avoid it. On the outside of this hub, connected by the wood, are the Tuck family, ten-year-old Winnie Foster, and the man in the yellow suit. The world, the narrator suggests, is like a giant wheel, with spokes connected in the center by a hub that, in this case, is a small wood owned by the Foster family. The narrator explains that the first week of August is the highest point of the year's cycle and that during this time, people do things they regret later. ![]()
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