The narrator tells us that he's going to be right back. He hears a loud noise, and he thinks it's his mother, who was visiting a refugee in the south during the civil war. The narrator says that she's the new mother, and that they're going to have to obey the teachings of the prophet and pray for the return of their father. They're happy to meet her, and they agree that their life at the school was peaceful on the surface, but that's because they lost all their precious things. They both graduated high school, and the pastor taught them how to read, write, and so on. They agree that they can't go back to the military academy because it'll ruin their family name, but the narrator says he'll see them later. He's glad to have met them, he says, because they took the pastor on as a gift to them, even after they left the school. He also says that the school isn't just a place to study, but a place that supports the nation's future.