The Farming Of Bones

Amabelle grows old living with Man Rapadou and Yves. Yves and Amabelle remain distant and only talk when necessary. Twenty-four years after the massacre, the Generalissimo is killed, and Haiti breaks out in celebration. Amabelle joins in and even dances, much to Yves’s consternation, as he does not think people should be happy about anything that involves so many deaths. They see Father Romain at the celebration, and he looks much better than when Amabelle last saw him. He has renounced the fatherhood and now has a wife and three kids. He says he will return to the Dominican Republic to help people from the town where Amabelle once lived.

Amabelle describes the paranoia Yves experiences during the decades after the massacre. He has built up his family farm but remains a loner. One day, Man Rapadou comes to visit Amabelle in the rooms Yves has had built for her. She tells Amabelle that she always dreams she is falling, and that she is similar to Amabelle because she has spent so much of her life dreaming. She reveals that she killed Yves’s father because he was going to snitch on some fellow citizens, which would have led to widespread death. While Man Rapadou feels guilty about the murder, she says she could not let him inform on others. The morning after this discussion, Amabelle heads to Henry I’s citadel and follows a tour. She listens as the tour guide explains Henry I’s history of going from slave to king, and how he did so at great cost to others.