They hide in the shack full of sheep manure, and the sheep themselves are inside it sheltering from the rain. Bronwyn and Enoch run ahead while Emma and Jacob veer off to try and lead the hollow away.
Golan has figured out how to get into the loop on his own, they run towards the loop in the woods, with the hollowgast pursuing them. They fight it and try to make an exit, and are eventually able to because Bronwyn uses her strength to beat him.Įnoch accuses Jacob of betraying them and allowing Dr. Golan disappears, leaving Malthus to eat them. He reveals the grotesque Malthus, his hollow, and says if Jacob helps them, he has nothing to fear from Malthus or his kind. This wight has been following Jacob around his entire life. Barron, his family's lawn and pool cleaner, and worst of all, his psychiatrist Dr.
He was his old middle-school bus driver Mr. He lists their names in turn, even Jacob's, and then reveals that he has been present in Jacob's life in many ways for years and years. Suddenly the mysterious bird-watching man appears, and he knows about all of them.
He also realizes that Martin is mistaken-he thought he saw the bog boy, but it was really a hollowgast, visible to the common eye only when it is eating. He says "my old man" killed him, and Jacob realizes he is talking about the bog boy that he saw in the museum when he first arrived on Cairnholm. Enoch rouses him with a sheep's heart, and he wakes up and recognizes Jacob. They make it into town and go to the fishmonger's, where they are keeping Martin's body. The plan is for Enoch to rouse Martin to ask him what killed him. Jacob decides to leave anyway to try and get the hollow before it gets them, and Emma, Bronwyn, and Enoch decide to sneak out of the loop with him. He puts up a fight because his father is stuck out there in town, but Miss Peregrine says if he chooses to leave he can never return. Miss Peregrine says that no one is allowed to leave the house, not even Jacob. Emma and Millard believe it was a hollow who killed Martin. There is a major storm about to hit the island, and Jacob is instructed not to leave Priest Hole, but he sneaks out so that he can warn Miss Peregrine about what he heard. Jacob fears that this means he is definitely a wight. Jacob's father discusses running into the strange other birdwatcher the other night, wearing sunglasses in the dark. Martin, the museum curator in Cairnholm, goes missing, and they later find his body in the ocean. Jacob sees Horace make an apocalyptic prediction one night. Miss Avocet is still there, and everyone speculates as to why the hollows would want to kidnap ymbrynes. At the house, Miss Peregrine has instituted what is nearly a lockdown in order to keep everyone safe, and all of the children are stir-crazy. His father has been wallowing and drinking heavily, sure that his new book is not going to work out, so it is easy for Jacob to sneak away into the loop. Jacob only has a few more days to decide whether to leave his father and stay in the loop, or to go with him back to the US.