Wild Dark Shore

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, animal death, mental illness, and death by suicide.

Dom wants to tell his daughter how much he loves her; he regrets how he has become “a conversation killer, a mood deflater” (68). Instead, he chastises her for taking Orly and Rowan to the ship. He wishes his late wife, Claire, were there to help.

Seeing Yen’s body makes Fen think about her mother’s death and corpse. She wonders if Claire would look like Rowan if she were still alive.

After dinner, Fen and Rowan talk about what they saw, and Fen cries. Rowan, who has a shaved head, tells Fen that she cut her hair off because she “wanted to feel lighter” (72). Then, Fen goes to talk to Raff. He is upset looking at a picture of one of the scientists, Alex. He storms off and goes to hit his punching bag in the lightroom at the top of the lighthouse. Fen tells Dom what happened, and he leaves to check in on Raff. After Dom has left his room, Fen steals Claire’s annotated copy of Jane Eyre from his closet, where he keeps Claire’s keepsakes.