In the Tall Grass
Becky finds out during her freshman year of college that she is pregnant, leading Cal to suggest she go live with her aunt and uncle in until the baby is born.Cal decides to take the spring semester off in order to accompany her on her cross-country trip from Durham, New Hampshire to San Diego, California and help her settle in.Cal thinks Tobin is just a few feet inside the field and walks into it to rescue the boy, Natalie's cries having mysteriously gone silent.Becky and Cal become increasingly agitated when they realize the field is somehow shifting their location from one another, one minute sounding close and the next leagues away.Cal, now severely dehydrated and exhausted in his attempt to look for Becky, feverishly drinks the gritty water that the grass grows in.Tobin leads Cal to a clearing in the middle of the field, where a large rock covered with carvings of dancing men stands.An unspecified amount of time later, an RV full of hippies pulls into the parking lot of an abandoned church across the road from the field to have a barbecue.