Charles Ardai: the headmaster of Jordan's prep school, Ardai is a father figure to Jordan and cares for the group.

Jordan remains with the group and provides the intellectual theory and comparison of the effects of the Pulse to that of a worm in a computer.

Jordan: a 12-year-old-boy studying at prep school that was devastated by the Pulse, Jordan faithfully remains with the headmaster, Charles Ardai, until they destroy the flock at the school and Ardai is driven to suicide by the phoners.

Alice remains an important part of the group. She forces her anxiety and trauma into an abandoned child's Nike shoe which helps her cope with the atrocities committed by the phoners.

Alice Maxwell: a 15-year-old girl, Alice teams up with Clay and Tom to head north.He remains with the group until after Kashwak when he survives and leaves Clay along with Jordan, Denise and Dan. Then, they move on north where they meet others.

With Clay and Alice, he travels to his home in Malden. Tom McCourt: a middle-aged, gay man from Malden, Massachusetts, Tom teams up with Clay in the initial chaos created by the Pulse.Clay heads north with a group of survivors and tries to find his son, Johnny. Clayton Riddell: a graphic artist separated from his family in Boston as the Pulse destroys civilization.Civilization crumbles as the Pulse's victims – dubbed 'phone crazies' or simply 'phoners' – attack each other or any unaltered people in view. As he prepares to celebrate, somebody, somewhere, triggers ' The Pulse,' a signal sent out over the global cell phone network that instantly turns all cell phone users into bloodthirsty, homicidal creatures.

Clayton Riddell, a struggling artist from Maine who is estranged from his wife, Sharon, and his young son, Johnny, has landed a graphic novel deal in Boston.

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