Night has fallen in the Exclusion Zone. Blind dogs and other creatures of the Zone howled around. Nightlight returned to the Newcomer Village. There was little left to a safe place, but then Arseny heard the howl of a pack of dogs that began to chase him. “Damn it…” - Seeing that the pack of dogs was simply huge, Night Light ran with all his might to a safe place. But they caught up with him, and he had to climb a tree so that the dogs wouldn’t get him.