The woman sighs and Chika imagines that she is thinking of her necklace, probably plastic beads threaded on a piece of string.
-- Narrator (Pages 1 - 4)

Importance: Shortly after climbing into the abandoned store with the woman, Chika begins observing her more attentively. The narrator shifts inside Chika's consciousness and reveals the way she is regarding the woman as lesser than herself. Chika, who has just lost her expensive designer handbag, assumes that the woman's necklace is of little value, merely a cheap string of replaceable beads. In this moment, Chika begins attempting to separate herself from the woman and her life, as a means of disassociating her present circumstances from her real life.

But she has no reason to agree or disagree, she knows nothing about riots...
-- Narrator (Pages 1 - 4)

Importance: When the woman assures Chika that the empty store is a safe place to hide from the riots, Chika agrees, as if she understands why the warring...