Pilcher’s actual apology and possible membership of OBF was pushed by a higher power than himself. It did not surprise him, but he thought it premature.
Kate did her housekeeping by contacting her family, and people who knew her, advising she had won a large amount of money and was on an extended holiday. She did not know when she would be back. She contacted her account clients and arranged to move her work to other professional colleagues. She even got her PC and her records back. It was hard parting with her cats to her girlfriend. She put her apartment up for sale and chose to remain on the base, at least for now. The last contact she made outside of the base was her final Friday evening session with her band.
Strangely, she did not feel guilty lying, but still felt an aching loneliness.
Her world was changing fast, yet she had no idea of how fast her past and future was catching up.