Kirsten reflects on the two knife tattoos on her wrist, each marking a killing: the first when she was fifteen and newly with the Symphony, when danger made the world go silent and she threw a knife into a man’s throat; the second outside Mackinaw City, when brigands demanded food, horses, and a woman, and the Symphony killed them in a coordinated fight before going on to perform. The memories fold into grief and exhaustion as Kirsten walks with August and an injured Sayid, thinking about how survival leaves lasting damage and how she avoids remembering the lost year between leaving Toronto with her brother and joining the Symphony.

They follow airport signs out of Severn City, passing ruined houses and then an immense, frozen-in-time highway traffic jam of abandoned cars, imagining the last days of the Georgia Flu and the panic to reach safety. At a quarantine roadblock, Kirsten is overwhelmed by thoughts of Dieter and then hears a distant dog bark. Convinced it is the Prophet’s dog, Kirsten leads August and Sayid into the woods to hide, with Sayid collapsing in the brush.

After a long wait, the Prophet arrives with armed men and the dog, Luli. The dog scents Kirsten, and the group forces her to stand and disarm while keeping weapons trained on her. Kirsten kneels on the road at gunpoint and lies to protect August and Sayid, claiming her companions are dead; she watches the Prophet’s calm, sermon-like language about darkness and light, while one of the boys with him visibly trembles and cries.

As approaching hoofbeats draw closer, Kirsten quotes lines from Station Eleven about the Undersea longing for sunlight and the world they were born into. The Prophet rejects the longing as impossible and prepares to kill her, but before he can fire, the crying boy shoots the Prophet in the head. In the ensuing split-second chaos, August kills the remaining men with arrows; then the boy, horrified and unstable, kills himself with the handgun. Kirsten is left alive and stunned as the Symphony’s scouts, Viola and Jackson, arrive on horseback and help recover Sayid.

Later, August shows Kirsten what he found in the Prophet’s bag: a taped-together New Testament filled with frantic notes, and inside it a torn page from Dr. Eleven Vol. 1 No. 1 showing Dr. Eleven kneeling over his dead mentor and being told to lead. Kirsten cannot answer how the Prophet had the page, but she recognizes him as another damaged survivor from the road. As plans are made to reunite with the Symphony and continue to the airport, Kirsten gently closes the Prophet’s eyes and places the Station Eleven page in his hand.