The List

Letta goes to the beach the next morning. She thinks of Benjamin’s final words when he said that birds still fly south. She thinks this means that means that something worthwhile is still out there, and maybe it includes her parents.

She sees Amelia walking. Amelia says Noa killed Leyla, and that there are worse things than death, as Ark will soon learn. Letta realizes Amelia is the one who told her Benjamin wasn’t dead. She left the message in the drop box. Amelia says that Letta is like her mother. At that moment, Letta realizes that her mother was Amelia’s other sister. The song Leyla sang was her mother’s favorite. Amelia says that Letta was born in John’s house and lived there for four years. John adored her, but when Letta’s mother betrayed them, Letta went with her. Amelia says Carver will never give up on punishing Letta, no matter what else happens.

Letta realizes that, had she continued her former path, she could have evolved into something she would have despised, without understanding that it was happening. She thought, in some ways, that she was superior to the people who had less access to language.

Werber comes to the shop with water, which makes Letta feel panicked.