Peet is thrown from his comfort zone of despising and resenting Simeon, to working closely with him (and growing in friendship) in an effort to save Wren.

The entire story from here on out is Peet and Simeon painfully growing in a relationship in an effort to find Wren.

Simeon doesn’t love Wren, he loves shallow, pointless things. His arc is perhaps the opposite of Peets. Peet wants a family, and learns he only needs to love, not be loved. You lay down your life for those you love, no matter what.

Stakes: Wren and Simeon leave the coma world, saving all the children, while Peet is left alone, completely orphaned.

Once we know what Peet wants, how do we make it incredibly hard for him to achieve it.

Peet and Wren wake months later from a coma in an empty hospital at twilight. They discover a group of teenagers in hospital gowns. Strangely, Simeon is there, appearing to lead the group. Simeon, however, is not wearing a hospital gown.

Peet aligns with two dorky students claiming to be his friends: Preston (a 4-eyed nerd) and Gomar (who is clearly stoned, calling himself “Gomboysa”). Neither of them know of Wren’s whereabouts. Worse, Peet learns of the recent rapture of the grown-ups: the cops, teachers, and parents, have all vanished.

Ignoring the groups caution, Peet races alone from the hospital and through the surrounding woods to Wren’s house as the sun sets. Peet explores her ransacked estate in the woods, encountering a naked one-eyed woman, who viciously attacks Peet. Preston saves him, and together they flee the woods to the safety of the hospital.

Here, Peet meets several other students, including Simeon, who begin a rehearsed nightly routine: locking the doors, flipping a coin for night-watch, and hunkering down in sleeping bags in the cafeteria.

That night, Peet is horrified to find dozens of grown-ups smiling through the windows at the children. The one-eyed woman nocks quietly at the locked doors, while a cloaked entity combs her hair with his long fingers.

Peet learns of the town’s nightmarish reality: crazed adults have been appearing from the woods all Summer, kidnapping children in the dead of night, and taking them into the woods. Gomboysa’s younger brother, Gomgirlsa, was even kidnapped a week prior. Peet can’t help but think of Wren.

The next day, Peet and his friends save Gomtoddler fleeing from the woods. Tending to a bite wound on his belly, Gomtoddler informs Peet of the crazed adults’ nest, Blackfork Asylum, several miles through the fog of Neverwood, atop Blackfork Mountain. To his horror, Gomtoddler speaks a beautiful girl, Wren, locked in the attic of the asylum, and demonic entity, Dr. Smile.

The four friends commit to saving her and the other children from the crazed adults, mapping out a daring venture to Blackfork Asylum the following morning.

That evening, however, Gomtoddler begins acting bizarre, obsessively scratching his bite-wound, explaining that it “feels good”. While sleep-walking, Gomtoddler unlocks the doors for the crazed grown-ups, and all hell breaks loose. Every teenager, including Gomboyssa, is taken, while Peet, Simeon, Preston, and a now lucid Gomtoddler, escape into the hospital sewer system.