Juliette wakes up in Warner’s room, with Warner there to give her food and keep an eye on her. 

I don’t know if it’s because I can’t think straight or if it’s because I’m genuinely confused, but I’m struggling to reconcile Warner’s polarizing personalities. Here he is, offering me a glass of water after he forced me to torture someone.

…Probably the not-thinking-straight thing.  I mean, he is keeping you there right after you ask to go back to your own room, and he’s not prostrate and apologizing.  Offering up a glass of water isn’t exactly repentant.

Confirmation that she fainted, didn’t get knocked out.

“Why are you being nice to me?”

The surprise on his face surprises me even more. “Because I care about you,”

HE’S NOT BEING NICE TO YOU, HE’S TAKING CARE OF YOU, THERE’S A DIFFERENCE.

I TAKE CARE OF MY CAR, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN I’M NICE TO IT.

But at least she responds appropriately to that care line by listing all the ways in which he’s either abused her or had others abuse her.

Warner again says he needs her for something.  Juliette again assumes it’s to kill people.  Warner says that’s not it, because he can kill people just fine.

So.  Not a clue what he does need her for, and he refuses to tell her when she asks.  All of her fit-pitching so far has been because she doesn’t want to touch/kill people.  Presumably, Warner could have gotten around her tantrums by simply telling her what’s going on.  Instead he keeps having her dragged everywhere by force.

He tells her to eat and go to sleep.

“But why?”

He barks out a laugh. “So many questions.”

“Well if you’d give me a straight answer—”

“Good night, Juliette.”

You know, it’s all well and good to want to have a ‘mysterious’ character, but it would be nice if we could get the sense that there’s a reason for his mystery.  In this case, it feels more like he just enjoys being an ass.

Also, there’s nothing to replace his lack of answers. 

Oh, hey, since we’ve got confirmation about her powers: why was she in the mental institute again?  This isn’t a mental issue.  It’s not like she’s hallucinating that she kills people by touching them.

Unless she is.  That would be a killer twist.  Like Warner just wants her for blackmail/ransom purposes, and she’s spinning circles in the background going on about killing people.

Ahem.  Enough of wishing.  Back to the actual story.

She wakes up the next morning and Warner tells her to go back to her room.  Just…so fascinating I might fall asleep. 

There are even more soldiers here than there are on my floor. Each is equipped with at least 4 different kinds of guns,

Maybe Juliette is mixing her deadly-touch hallucination with a Rambo movie…

Warner tells her she should use the fact that everyone’s afraid of her to her advantage.

“You should.” He stops. His eyes are calling me an idiot. “If they don’t fear you, they will hunt you.”

“People hunt things they fear all the time.”

“At least now they know what they’re up against.”

They’re up against a girl who has to physically touch someone to do damage, and they’ve all got long sleeves and ranged weapons.

I mean, I get they can be afraid of her simply because it’s a weird paranormal power, but Juliette’s right.  They’ve clearly got the advantage.  Her only possible edge is the element of surprise, and that’s gone.

Then it gets dumber.  Warner says he made her touch that soldier the other day because he wanted everyone to be afraid of her, so that they wouldn’t go near her and hurt her.

Dumber than a donkeycock that, since, as we covered, people tend to lash out against things they’re scared of and they all have guns.

Warner goes on for a while about how tenuous power is, which means he should really know about stuff like matching a carrot with your stick and playing important information close to the vest and how someone’s own imagination is always better at coming up with fear than any amount of threats.

They get to her room and Adam is there, and she angsts because he’s afraid of her now.

And that’s it.  Two whole chapters of going to bed, waking up, and walking down a hall.

Oh, we did finally find out that Warner is in charge of “a sector.”  Big whoop, still don’t know what that means.