Lena runs into Hana on the way home from her job at her uncle’s convenience store one day in late July. Lena hates that their conversation is stilted and awkward since their fight. Hana reveals that she has been matched with the governor’s son, and Lena recognizes this development as the beginning of what will be their post-cure separate lives. She invites Hana to a movie, but Hana has plans to go to a party with another classmate. Lena is jealous and angry at their fractured friendship. Hana invites her to the party, but Lena refuses to go, and they part ways.

Rachel and her husband, David, come over for dinner that evening. Lena only sees her sister four or five times a year but has stopped looking forward to her visits because of Rachel’s new restrained personality. After dinner, there is suddenly a raid, a random and violent home search conducted by regulators. People who resist or who are suspected of being sympathizers of the Invalids are detained and questioned. Eventually, those found to be sympathizers are either held in the Crypts (prisons) or executed. Lena’s house is skipped, but she fears for Hana and the other “uncured” people at the party.