Epitaph and Pens

Summary

• Tova has a busy day completing tasks ahead of moving from Sowell Bay to Charter Village.
• She visits Jessica Snell at the realtor's office to arrange a house walk-through, before going to her bank to get a cashier's check detailing her account balances to assist her application to Charter Village.
• Tova also stops at Janice Kim's house to use her son's scanner to copy her driver's license for the application.
• She later travels to a chain drugstore to get passport photos taken, as required by the application, and is surprised by their high cost.
• In the afternoon, she visits the graves of her late husband William Sullivan and son in Fairview Memorial Park, reflecting on their epitaphs and her own future gravestone.
• She briefly interacts with old Mrs. Kretch and her great-granddaughter, who are having a picnic and chatting to their deceased family member's grave. While Tova finds this unusual, she confesses to William’s grave that she's selling the house.
• That evening, after gathering all of her forms, she realizes she needs a black pen. Ethan, a worker at Shop-Way deli, helps her pick one out.
• During this exchange, Ethan offers to take her for tea, to which Tova unexpectedly agrees, and he gives her his phone number.
• Later that evening, she sneaks into the aquarium after-hours to see Marcellus the Octopus. She notes that Octopus’s tank appears to be maintained well without her, indicating she might not be as indispensable as she previously thought.
• The chapter finishes on a cliffhanger with Tova hearing unusual noise from the octopus enclosure, which should have been empty.