Chapters 12-15

In chapters 12-15, Kira and Thomas seem to hear a strange sound from below the floor of their rooms, almost like the sound of a child crying.  So, they decide to explore the lower floor a little.  When they look around that night, they discover a little girl named Jo that lives on the floor beneath them.  She is to become the next Singer. Kira meets her, and tells Jo that she will help her. In the morning, when Kira asks Jamison about Annabelle saying there is no beasts, he is confused.  Jamison says that he has seen beasts and that he saw Kira's father taken by beasts too. Annabelle, the old dyer, was taken to the Field for an unknown reason. So, a dyeing garden was built for Kira so that she can dye threads now that Annabelle is dead.


I was very surprised that Annabelle was taken to the Field because she is wise, old, and has 4 syllables. I am also wondering about what Jamison said about beasts, that he has seen them and that he saw Kira's father taken by beasts; but, Annabelle said that there is no such thing as beasts. I think that one of them is lying, and that it is probably Jamison. I think this because Annabelle does not seen like somebody who would lie, and she lives in the woods so she would probably know about beasts.