He is thin and grey and old and as he looks up at the smoke that hangs over the city, he says, 'She is up there now,' and within the month he is up there too. My father returns from the incinerator that day but he can't find Fagen and he has nothing to say. He is hissing too. There's trouble at the factory. The wages shrink even further.
Nobody knows what's going on.
The school is closed. The cable car that has taken people to work for years is burnt. It won't be fixed. They walk to the factory, and work longer hours. Mother's prophecies deepen.