This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the previous chapter, in which we learn that the invasion team was led by a young woman named Celia. She is the daughter of Celia's father, and she has come to bring her father back to the U.S. She tells her father that she has seen a woman in the sky with wings, and that she wants to take her place as a strong warrior of the country. She begs her father to let her go, but he refuses, saying that he wants to stay with him