Bloom

After the first day of testing, Anaya calls her mom, who tells her Mr. Hilborn died and Jen is still in a coma. People on Salt Spring Island are cohabiting and sleeping in shifts to avoid being killed by vines. Nobody can reach Anaya’s dad since he left for Cordova Island. In addition to her toenails turning into claws, Anaya’s leg hair starts growing out of control. Petra, meanwhile, realizes her tail is regrowing. The girls are getting along much better, and Anaya finally apologizes for betraying Petra’s secret. They forgive each other and agree to be friends again.

Seth can’t sleep. He finds Anaya and Petra awake too. The three realize they have similar recurrent dreams. Seth admits his latest dream featured all of them. He was flying, Anaya was running, and Petra was swimming. In the dream, they all looked different. He shows them his sketch. Petra is horrified by her appearance in the sketch. Anaya flips through the sketchbook and sees a sketch of a black vine, sac, and berries. Seth says he sketched it from a dream six months prior.