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- Kirsten says she more alive onstage than anywhere else. This echoes her thoughts on acting as a child, but she also says she finds relief from fear when performing.
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Kirsten hears the sentry ask if the Traveling Symphony can take him along with them, but Kirsten watches as the sentry is left behind. The conductor tells Kirsten that they could not take the sentry because people might think that they had kidnapped him.
As Kirsten walks back to the Symphony, Dieter intercepts her and takes her to see three painted markers bearing Charlie, Jeremy, and Annabel's names.
As a child, after Arthur dies, Kirsten tells Jeevan that the thing she loves most in the world is acting. When Kirstin is an adult, Mandel echoes these sentiments by revealing that Kirsten never feels more alive or less afraid than when she’s acting in the symphony.
After her brother also dies, Kirsten joins the Traveling Symphony, a theater troupe that travels among the small post-collapse settlements of the Great Lakes area and performs music and Shakespeare plays. The motto of the Symphony is extremely meaningful to her: “survival is insufficient.”
Three days after being separated from the Symphony, Kirsten wakes up from a bad dream and August comforts her. The two wash up and cut each other’s hair. They see a sign for the Severn City airport with an arrow pointing toward the center of town.
Kirsten, now a member of the company, carries a paperback book version of the play and helps the other actors with their lines, including August, her close friend. The Symphony, which includes a troupe of actors and a group of musicians, is headed for the town St. Deborah by the Water.
As she walks through the town, Kirsten notices that it is more abandoned than the last time the Symphony passed through. She also sees a strange symbol – a lowercase t with an extra line toward the bottom – marking a door.
