How It All Goes Down
- Nick gets a special visitor in the hospital: Kody.
- Not only is Kody a hot new girl, but she is charitable, too, volunteering at the hospital twice a week.
- Kody brings Nick some Dune novels and some comic books to help him pass the time, but what Nick really wants to keep himself occupied are video games.
- Nick falls asleep after Kody leaves. When he wakes up, he finds a present: a pink Nintendo.
- A Nintendo what? Game Boy? 3DS? Virtual Boy?
- Nick's pretty sure Kody likes him, because you don't just lend out your system to anyone.
- The chapter POV changes to Kody talking to Sraosha, "her guide and mentor" (3.30). Does he guide her on how to pronounce his name?
- Sraosha tells Kody that Nick is a "Malachai" (3.74), some type of creature that is normally dark and evil.
- But Nick isn't evil. Yet.
- Kody's job is to keep Nick from turning evil. If she fails, she'll have to kill him. And we don't mean in a video game.