The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Chapters 20-30)

Mary and everyone are still traveling when Cass breaks down. She is screaming that they all go back and find more water. But everyone disagrees because there is nothing to go back too. Then they see the letters again and they know they must follow them because it will lead to something. "Harry's eyes are not on me but on his brother as he lets me go, a small possessive smile on his face" (CX) (184). To me that is really annoying because they are both fighting over her when they have bigger things to worry about.
Finally they reach a path that says XIV which is what Gabrielle wrote on her window and they see a village just up ahead.

 So they all run to it. Rejoicing that maybe they are not the only ones left. But there are no people, just more Unconsecrated. So they run towards the ladder but Travis cannot climb it so Mary and Travis run to a house while everyone else runs up the ladder. They box themselves in and finally they are alone. But Mary starts to get really annoying because she completely ignores Travis. After all that wanting for them to be alone and they finally get it, she goes off where he cannot get to her and sits by herself watching the others.
Finally the Unconsecrated break into the house. Travis and Mary hurry out and they both barely get out alive. They talk to the others and they explain that they cannot leave until winter because that is when they will be at there weakest. Travis then tells Mary that he talked to Gabrielle and she has seen the ocean and it is not safe. "She told me the Unconsecrated rise from the waters and still walk the beaches. That there's no way to fence it off- no way to protect your self" (S) (254). Mary gets all mad and then she finds out that Travis was never going to come for her. So their relationship is pretty much over.
Before getting over to the other side, Mary found these books so she brought them with her as proof there is something more. She has found that the numbers in this book do mean something and there is some sort of pattern.
I think that there plan to wait until winter will not work. I think someone else is going to die. This book will not have a happy ending.