Summary

Pages 57 – 63. On her way into work, The Pilot plays the “Decompression” CD, commenting that “Backwards feels right” (57) and describing how she threw her Air Force pin out the window in the direction of the crosses. She pays particular attention to The Pony Song.

At work, The Sensor comments on how she stinks. The Pilot ignores him and sits down at her screen, following the Prophet with her drone and convinced that this will be the day that she kills him. Eleven hours pass. The Prophet’s car arrives at a village and stops in front of a small house. The Pilot and her team, anticipating that the moment is coming, cannot understand why he does not get out, but then realize that The Prophet is just watching his family from his car, keeping them safe: he seems to know that he is in danger...