- Cassie, at this point, was hiding in the ash pit.
- The soldiers find her backpack, which she threw in the woods to put them off her scent.
- They get called back by Vosch, but they also made a cryptic comment about how something called "the Eye" will finish her.
- At first, Cassie felt creeped out by the ash pit. But then she thought about the corpses as people who saved her life, and she felt better.
- She lay there a long time. When she finally got up, she went to retrieve her M16.
- She didn't hear anyone. Then again, she didn't hear anyone leave.
- For a minute, she thought about looking at the dead soldier's face to see if he looked like an alien. She decided against it.
- Before she left, she's wanted to check for survivors. She headed back to the area where the meeting of death was.