伊亚诺（Iano）命令她回到伊文（Ivins），以完成生物学学位。威拉想知道他何时会注意到提格对他的指示免疫。提格告诉她的父母，她拒绝获得银行贷款，而学费不再是选择，无论如何她已经学会了比她想知道的一个灾难的生物圈。后者对Willa来说并不是消息，Willa看到了女孩如何总是比她的任何一个朋友，甚至历史专业的人更努力地掌握人类自私的真相。
(Iano ordered her back to Ivins to finish her degree in biology. Willa wondered when he would notice Tig was immune to his directives. Tig informed her parents she refused to take out bank loans, with tuition exchange no longer an option, and anyway she'd already learned more than she wanted to know about a ravaged biosphere. The latter was no news to Willa, who'd seen how the girl always took the truth of human selfishness harder than any of her friends, even the history majors.)