How does Frenchie experience loss in the book?

French reflects that while being on the run or being captured by the schools is horrible, it is actually the constant threat of loss that represents the most difficult aspect of the inhospitable world they live in. Dimaline demonstrates that the devastating power of loss not only affects characters psychologically, but also impacts them on a physical level. After losing RiRi and killing Travis, French experiences loss “as physical pain at the bottom of my stomach and under each kneecap. That’s where the loss lived….”