Chapters 13 & 14

Chapter 12 ends with David, Rosalind, and Petra in great horses facing a rider. The rider shoots at them and they shoot back, eventually hitting his horse. Later they pass through a town-like area surrounded by mutational farms. I think hat this shows the hypocrisy and arrogance of the people of Labrador. They claim to be pure and to uphold the True Image, yet they expand through the creation and consumption of deviational crops. They ride through the town, later coming to a large, thick forest. They try looking for a place through but are fired at and the horses freak out and split. They ride through the forest some distance, the Great horse destroying all trees who dare stand it its way in a fear filled rage of genocide. They eventually find a road in the forest and are joined by the other great horse. They get away and then they are ambushed by a group of Fringes people.

The Fringes people seem nice and very human in their behaviour. The one riding the horse that David is in details his views on the Labradorians. That they are arrogant fools who believe in an image that they can't prove and persecute all who don't match that image. But after a while he seems to portray another type of religion. Then Micheal tells them that his search party is meeting up with all the other parties to go after them. Petra then says that the Sealanders are getting closer. David and the rest of the second-rates try to make contact and succeed. The woman details that Petra is to be kept safe no matter what, as well as informing them about Zealand. Zealand is filled with telepaths and has developed their technology to the point where they help other telepaths escape persecution. She also makes a very condescending and arrogant speech regarding the inferiority of the normal people. She tells them that help is on the way. This strengenths my theory that David and the rest of the telepaths are going to get airlifted out in an epic, wicked-sick, futuristic air raid by the Zealanders using epic, wicked-sick, high-tech gunships. I doubt they'll trump the great horses, though.

They eventually cross a river and meet up with some other Fringes people. David, Rosalind, and Petra are taken down from the horses and the horses are ridden on into the forest. They are then taken into a clearing with a small settlement of huts and a red cliff with holes in it that have ladders leading up to them. This seems very tribal almost to point of cliche. They are taken to the largest tent to meet a man on a stool inside. It turns out to be the spider man, spider man, does whatever a spider ma... Moving on, he and David talks and details that the man is inc fact his father's elder brother. This makes it very clear that David's family, on both sides, has a tendency for deviation. This is a very comforting thought when you consider the fact that David's father is a purist zealot and prick. The man looks at Rosalind in a manner that scares her and Petra, causing David to punch him off the stool. David is then thrown out of the village, tries to be an arrogant prick like his dear old dad and turn back after a few metres, and gets rightfully beaten up and thrown into the underbrush.