Mr. Harker

Mr. Harker is Reese's dad and used to work at Raxter School For Girls. In the book, it is said that he was placed in the wing with the teachers and other staff and everyone acted as if it wasn't the weirdest thing when it was. One day he was fine and the next he wasn’t. He left without anything more than leaving Reese a note that said he had to go. When Reese and Hetty go to look for Byatt they go into Reese's old house before she started living on school grounds all the time. Inside, after unzipping the body bag, a figure appears and it is Mr. Harker. The Tox has taken over him and turned him into something neither the girls like. He seems to be a plant monster. He has lungs that are made of twigs and black teeth.

Tox

 * “Just an eagerness in his hands, to scratch and tear apart.” Page 86
 * “And the next he was throwing up a black sludge, grainy like dirt, and looking at us with empty eyes.” Page 86
 * "Because it's his face, and it's his body, but I dont think anything else is left. His skin bleached and pulling, his mouth sprouting roots. Branches burrowing in ears and under fingernales and slinking down his arms. And ublinking, eyes still his, pupils blown wide as he watches us." Page 212
 * "He looks at me, cocks his head as he opens his mouth, takes a long, rattling breath. Black, splitting teeth, and a nest of green at the back of his throat." Page 212
 * "Until I hit what I think is a bone. But a glimer of the flare light, and they're not bones. They're branches, spindled ribs curving and cresting." Page 215
 * "A beating, heart, glossed in blood. Built from the earth, from the brsitle of pine, and inside, there is something else, something more, something living." Page 215