Soon, Mary Anne became gloomy and didn't want to talk to anyone. She had fallen in love with the landscape. The next morning, she and the six Greenies were gone. It crushed Mark Fossie when he heard about it, he would walk around and mumble "Lost."(220) Mary Anne returned three weeks later, but she had changed. She was almost a completely different person than the one Mark Fossie had once known and fallen in love with. It didn't take long for her to disappear again. Mark, Rat and Eddie (another friend of Mark's) found her by following the music. Before them, they saw bones, skins of dead animals and they say that the worst thing was the smell of it all. Mary Anne was found wearing a necklace of human tongues, but still in the clothes she had arrived in. the outside for the most part, but she had completely changed inside forever. Mark couldn't believe his eyes and he wanted to bring her back to the way she was. Rat said to him, “Dude, you must be deaf. She's already gone. » (224) Rat had already realized that they could not return her to the way she was before she was brought to Vietnam. They were afraid of what she had become and wanted to change her.