It's been a while since we've seen Deryn, and now she's back at her mother's house. She's so excited to be back with her family that she can't stop thinking about her crush on Deryn's father, who's now dead. Deryn asks her father if he's heard about the crush she had on her father, and he tells her that she should stop worrying about it now that everyone's gone home for the summer. She wants to go home and watch a movie with her friends, but she doesn't want to go just yet. She also wants to get rid of the love letter she gave Deryn to her father. She tells her father that she'll never have a crush on his son, and she tells him that he should