![]() A crazed Prentisstown preacher named Aaron chases Todd and Viola. Todd has never seen a girl before Prentisstown lore says that all the women were killed by the Noise germ of the Spackles, the alien race native to New World. Todd flees into the swamp with Manchee, where they find a girl named Viola. On hearing about it, Ben and Cillian tell him he must leave immediately, and they send him away with a rucksack containing his mother’s journal. At home, information about the silence leaks out of Noise. Todd finds a pocket of silence in the swamp, which he describes as a hole in the noise. One day, Todd’s guardians-Ben and Cillian-send him into the swamp to pick apples with his dog, Manchee. The men hide their thoughts from him so that he can’t know. ![]() Boys officially become men on their thirteenth birthdays, but Todd does not know how it happens. When the story begins, Todd’s thirteenth birthday is one month away. ![]()
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