The Wives

Thursday leaves Regina’s apartment wondering who is lying: Regina or Seth. A few hours later, Thursday is awoken by a phone call from Regina. Regina tells her that Seth is looking for her and asks to meet at a diner to talk. At the diner, Regina tells her that during her first year of marriage to Seth, she also had a miscarriage. Regina continues that Seth hadn’t told her about Thursday’s miscarriage; he told her that Thursday hadn’t been able to get pregnant. Regina asks Thursday what she remembers about her miscarriage and whether she’d been given anything to eat or drink. Thursday tells her that Seth had given her some tea that his mother used to make but now becomes alarmed by the memory since she knows that Seth’s family has been dead for years. Regina says that remembers Seth offering her the tea before her own miscarriage.

Thursday decides to leave the house she is hiding in and drives to the public library, where she looks for news articles surrounding the death of Seth’s parents. She only finds their obituaries, but Thursday wonders whether it’s because they lived outside of the norms of society, i.