Guards return them to the camp, and an irritated Obi explains that they can only leave when the camp does, so they don’t tell anyone about their location. Despite the aggressiveness of one of the guards, Obi tries to convince them that they could stay and join the resistance movement—they will feed them and care for them in exchange for more hands against the angels.

In punishment for their escape attempt, Raffe gets latrine duty and Penryn is forced to do laundry with the other women, which disgusts her. The women talk about their surprise at remaining unharmed and their dislike of most of the men except Obi. She learns that most of the dogs are former pets poorly trained to be aggressive, which is why the guards don’t use them except to chase people down. Many of the people in the camp have no military experience but pretend to be soldiers. Penryn watches as the men use computers as bricks to build privacy walls and contemplates how different things have become.

At lunchtime, an attractive woman makes moves on Raffe, and Penryn pretends to ignore it. She goes to find Obi and beg to be released but sees the men loading dangerous crates; a lewd guard tells her to go back to washing and sexually harasses her.