Kirsten, August, and Sayid leave the Prophet’s followers’ bodies behind and continue toward the Severn City Airport. The Prophet’s dog trails them until Kirsten feeds him and calls him Luli, after which he stays at her side. As the terminal comes into view, they smell roasting meat and choose the Departures entrance, where two crossbow-armed sentries confront them.

The tension breaks when the woman sentry reveals herself as Charlie and rushes to embrace them. Inside the airport—now a settlement of hundreds—August takes Sayid to the infirmary while Kirsten, exhausted and shaken, collapses in Charlie and Jeremy’s tent, with Luli curling beside her. Charlie offers condolences for Dieter’s death and agrees to help Kirsten get a tattoo to mark the archer Kirsten killed on the road.

As Kirsten struggles to sleep, she and Charlie revisit an old memory of finding a pristine doll’s tea set in a ransacked house nursery, a moment that felt haunted and inexplicable. Charlie insists there were no ghosts, but Kirsten can’t shake the sense of unseen presences in a world full of loss.

That night there is music in the concourse while Sayid rests downstairs with his injuries cleaned and bandaged. Listening from the back of the crowd, Kirsten’s mind drifts through grief and memory—especially Dieter’s role in bringing her into the Symphony and shaping her understanding of being “defined” by catastrophe.

Afterward, Kirsten meets Clark Thompson, who confirms her identity and mentions his Museum of Civilization. Noting Kirsten’s interest in electricity, Clark leads her outside and up the nine-story air traffic control tower. From the glass-walled top, he shows her a dim patch on the southern horizon; through a telescope, Kirsten sees a distant town lit by an electric grid, proof that large-scale power has returned somewhere beyond the airport.