A Long Walk Chapter 12 The next few days were a write-off. Jasper was raving, incoherent. He insisted that they walk, that making it to Charlottetown was important, that they couldn't stop, not even for a day. He could barely stand, and threw up often. "You can't walk, idiot." Naomi said, "Lie down, let us take care of you." "Can't. Gotta make it to Taylor, she needs me." "Yeah, we gonna get there. You keep trying to walk you ain't going nowhere. You gonna fall down and die, then Mona and me gotta put a knife through your brain, how that help Taylor?"