Summary

This section is narrated in the third person, except for the concluding epilogue, narrated by the plural first person narrators.

The section begins on Lake Kariba, the lake created by the Kariba Dam, where the three children and Mai, a Chinese woman whom Naila injected with a Bead at the National Registration Office, are on a boat. Joseph recounts the story of the Tonga people who were forced off their land during the construction of the dam. Joseph, Jacob, and Naila infiltrate the dam after watching the Kalingalinga rally to assess why it went wrong. The three of them and Mai decide to use Jacob’s Moskeetoze to block the Kariba Dam briefly, and then bring it back up while connecting the population's Beads to Jacob’s own Bluetooth network rather than the government-controlled AFRINET wi-fi network. The next morning, however, the...