The next morning, Newkirk wakes up to find that his cloaking system has stopped working. He's worried that the enemy is going to absorb the placenta from his ship and use it to build a new one. He also worries that the armor he's wearing isn't as good as it used to be. He wonders if it's a good idea to trust the ship of Jate, who has a large number of civilians and children on board. Newkirk says that he doesn't know what to do now that keisha's dead, but he does know that the church has spread a lot of disease in the empire, and that's why they need to stop the invasion of the north.