Cherry pauses her personal narrative to reflect on Kayla Halfpenny's life and death. She recalls seeing Kayla in the Hobart departure lounge—the young woman who reminded her of her tearful piano teacher and who knocked over her drink and phone. Cherry has researched Kayla extensively online since the tragedy.

Cherry shares what she has learned: Kayla was nineteen, lived in Lauderdale near Hobart with her parents and two younger sisters, and was studying for a Diploma of Beauty Therapy. She was a Taylor Swift fan, terrified of flying, but had bravely flown alone to Sydney for a friend's party. At the party, she told everyone about a very tall boy she met at the baggage carousel. Her family adored her—her parents had surprised her with a puppy named Ruby Tuesday for her eighteenth birthday, and the dog grieved so badly after Kayla's death that the vet prescribed antidepressants.

Cherry then recounts the circumstances of Kayla's fatal car accident. Kayla died on a Thursday afternoon at an intersection in Primrose Sands, Hobart, on a clear, cold July day with good visibility. She was not speeding. Her friend, who survived with serious injuries, was livestreaming their conversation in the car, which revealed that Kayla was driving slowly because of Cherry's psychic prediction about her death in a car accident.

Cherry emphasizes that the accident was not Kayla's fault—she obeyed every road rule and had a green light. A forty-year-old man, more than three times over the legal alcohol limit at ten in the morning, with two prior drunk-driving convictions, ran a red light at over one hundred kilometers per hour and struck Kayla's car. Cherry acknowledges it was not technically her fault either, but she is haunted by the thought that if Kayla had been driving faster rather than cautiously because of the prediction, she might have passed through a different intersection at the critical moment. Cherry expresses her hope that this thought has not occurred to Kayla's parents.