"Reality came knocking again." Retirement had just been a pipe dream. The number of messes left by Freelancer, and by herself, keep coming, and she's going to keep cleaning them up until the day that she dies. For a brief moment, one brief shining moment, she had also thought that maybe, just maybe, Epsilon has survived. She knew now that it was a rouse to get them out, to trap her and to try to destroy Earth.