House of Hollow

Content Warning: The Chapter 14 Summary details Gabe Hollow’s suicide, and the Chapter 15 Summary includes an attempted sexual assault.

Iris nearly falls asleep in a hospital chair. On the cab ride to the hospital, Grey was erratic, throwing Vivi’s phone in the road, scratching her sisters, and screaming at them to listen, repeating that they had to run—even though she was bleeding and barely able to stand. Iris and Vivi answered the nurses and police’s questions with little information, as they know their story sounds unbelievable.

A doctor tells Cate, Iris, Vivi, and Tyler that Grey is stable and sedated, but enduring a “severe psychotic episode” in which she believes she was “kidnapped and dragged through a door to another realm by a horned beast,” and that the creature is coming for her and her sisters (147). Iris and Vivi become nervous. They aren’t allowed to see Grey, so Cate decides to go home, hugging Iris, though she can’t convince her to come along.

After Cate leaves, Iris and Vivi discuss Grey’s vanishing and the magical door she stepped through. Overwhelmed, Vivi goes to buy cigarettes. Tyler comments that Cate and Grey don’t get along, but Iris corrects him that Cate hates her.