Chapter 12
Honestly this chapter was kinda boring… despite a lot of things “happening” in it. Ted, Christopher, and Meade meet up with the Wanderers in a nearby cave and they just lay out their plan. The chapter details that the Wanderers have been keeping up with this battle for a long time, trying to bring back Millgate through a painstaking reconstruction of it. Also, it seems like in this space the Wanderers are a bit more corporeal.
This said, the whole chapter kind of falls apart because so much of it is dedicated to the Wanderers, and specifically the lead Wanderer Hilda’s, plans that the end of the chapter kind of just undoes. It seemed like Ted’s restoration of the park was causing more Wanderers to remember aspects of the town and The Haze began to peel away from around the park. However, then at the end we’re told that the new park is shrinking, which… okay? I mean, it’s not good but it just feels so much like setup for a final confrontation with Peter or with Ahriman that I'm not sure what more there is to say about it…
Umm.. oh I did think it was pretty cool when we found out that the Wanderers make use of animals as spies and that Peter’s animals are almost explicitly engineered to fight against them. So like, the Wanderers make use of moths at night, and Peter makes use of spiders who catch the moths, disrupting the flow of information back to the Wanderers. Also, apparently, the source of Peter and Mary’s power is basically unknown, or more specifically, it’s unknown why exactly Peter and Mary have these powers that set them apart from the Wanderers or the other citizens of Millgate.
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