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369:" him by cutting off the tip of his nose with scissors, probably causing wounds which would have killed him. Benjamin, thanks to the distraction of Lydia by one of his other captors, has run away from the cottage and is hiding in one of the vehicles, a bus, on the land, wrapped in a blanket to ward off hypothermia. Seeing his parents and Joona struggling against Lydia and the other captors, Benjamin breaks up the confrontation using the bus. Lydia overpowers Benjamin, gets into the driver's seat, and commences to try to escape by driving over the ice, but the ice breaks under the bus and commences to sink. Erik rescues Benjamin from the sinking bus, but Erik and Lydia are trapped on the bus as it sinks. Erik is saved by a rope attached to a life preserver wrapped around him, with Simone and Benjamin pulling him up to safety. The novel ends with the Bark family eating a meal at
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