Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination, racism, rape, and sexual violence.

The box contains UV light bulbs wrapped in paper with a pattern of sea creatures. This seems useless to Sade, but as she looks at the paper, she remembers the scrap of paper from the music box that said “Fishermen” and the group chat on August’s phone with the same name. She had also noticed a fish tattoo on Jude’s arm.

That afternoon, she and Baz attend the biology club to question Theodore Grenolde. Baz asks about Elizabeth, and Teddy explains that their feud began when Elizabeth destroyed Teddy’s science fair project by accidentally knocking it off a table. He says that “karma came to her in the end” (227), and for a moment, Sade thinks he is confessing to hurting Elizabeth. However, Teddy goes on to explain that he got Elizabeth demoted from biology club president by telling a teacher she killed the class hamster. Sade and Baz leave, sure that TG isn’t Teddy.

At lunch, Sade asks Unholy Trinity what they know about the Fishermen. None of the girls claim to know anything, but Persephone expression changes, and Sade suspects she is lying.