Doll Bones

Zach wakes up Alice to show her the destruction, and she blames it on raccoons. Alice believes Poppy is messing with them and is doing everything she can to convince them to continue the quest. Zach doesn’t know what he believes; his dream about Eleanor seemed very real. Alice searches Zach’s bag for food, but it’s empty aside from a folded-up note. She accuses Zach of lying to Poppy days ago when he claimed he lost the questions she gave him.

Poppy wakes from a nightmare about Eleanor, but Zach doesn’t tell her about his own. She doesn’t believe the Queen trashed the camp but wonders if Tinshoe Jones followed them.

All their food has been ruined, so the friends walk back into town to grab food at the donut shop they spotted the night before. As they eat their hot chocolate and donuts, they discuss if they’d want to be ghosts and haunt people after their deaths. Their conversation is interrupted by the shop owner, who delivers a pink donut to their “blond friend.” Zach remembers how Tinshoe had also mentioned their blond friend on the bus. The trio wonder if strangers see Eleanor’s ghost. They decide to continue to East Liverpool, but Alice demands they take the next bus home so that she doesn’t get in trouble with her grandmother.