The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Travis uses a storage barrel to ferry Argos and Mary to the tree house. He fires an arrow with the other handmade rope attached. Harry pulls the rope as Mary clutches it tight, and the barrel slides along the braided rope. When Travis attempts to climb out onto the rope that bridges the gap, it dips almost within reach of the milling Unconsecrated below, and at the same time, the undead inside the house suddenly break out and swarm to the edge. One woman falls and grips Travis’s leg, poised to bite, but a man falls and knocks her loose. Travis manages to hook his legs around the rope but is then paralyzed with fear. Mary urges him to focus on her voice as she coaches him on where to move, and he finally shimmies across to safety.

Later, Mary awakens in the tree house with Travis nearby. He says that the undead woman scratched his leg but insists that he is fine. He tells Mary that the others have a tentative plan to return to the fenced paths by rigging a rope into the Forest.