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The Year After, Chapter 37

Chapter 37 covers the year after leaving Ohio until the meeting point with Lexa, Nancy, and Raven.
Finn and Rachel learn to become two after being three with Kurt.
Rachel holds children, audience, and fear through voice, order, and movement. She is not only bossy and not only music.
Finn is not stupid. He is a huge heart, human intuition, a body that protects, and the ability to kill living dead when needed to preserve life.
Rachel gathers smart barter supplies, including formula, children's medicine, bottles, diapers, soft food, and batteries.
Finn and Rachel find a truck someone else loaded and then died / turned / got trapped. They kill the living dead around the truck, take it, and load more.
The truck is locked and Rachel has the key. When the small convoy sees it in Chapter 36 / 37, it looks abandoned.
Finn's leg injury does not come from the living dead, but from something heavy falling on him while he goes to get something. The injury bleeds and is dangerous, but survivable.
The end of Chapter 37 stops when Rachel sees Lexa, Nancy, and Raven and recognizes structure, not only danger. She does not yet ask for help. The request, bandaging, and decision to take the truck move to Chapter 38.

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