![]() She takes the girl, hoping to find a neighbor who will care for her. Matilda finds a little girl whose mother has died. ![]() She finds herself in a bad part of town and is about to return home when she hears a whimper from the shadows. ![]() She seeks help from some of her family’s acquaintances, but everyone is either gone or too distraught to assist her. SurvivalĪfter taking Grandpa’s body to the mass grave in the town square, Matilda wanders the city lost and bereft. A fight ensues, and one of the men ends up killing Grandpa, leaving Matilda alone and broken-hearted. But Grandpa comes downstairs with a rifle and threatens the men. They find Matilda and try to beat the information out of her. That night, two men enter through the window and search the house for anything valuable. She decides to sleep on it and opens the windows to cool the stuffy coffeehouse down, a decision she’d regret forever. It’s not safe to venture outside with the thieves lurking around and the dead lying in the streets. That night, Matilda tries to figure out how to find food in the abandoned city. She and Grandpa return to the coffeehouse to find both Lucille and Eliza gone and the place destroyed by thieves. But Matilda won’t leave Grandpa and is eager for news of her mother. When it’s time for them to leave the hospital, the doctors suggest Matilda go to the orphanage for safety. ![]() Fortunately, Grandpa didn’t have the fever, just summer grippe and a weak heart. ![]() The doctors are able to help, and she makes a full recovery. Matilda wakes up in a mansion-turned hospital with yellow fever. ![]()
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