There's a burst of blinding light, a terrible screeching noise that continues to ring in your ears, and searing heat. Before you can see or hear again, you can smell burnt flesh. There's the smouldering buildings and plant life, the metal and gasoline from vehicles too, but the flesh is overwhelming, far more distinct than any other.

When the dust settles everything is smoke and ruins. Except Vanya's body in your hands, holding her by her collar, a knife stuck in her chest. What did you do, Five? Did you try to stop the apocalypse by killing your sister and end up causing it? Or maybe you just couldn't stop yourself, you just felt like it. Either way her blood is on your hands at the very least, and awfully suspicious you should be the lone survivor, isn't it?

It feels as if ages pass, hundreds of years, thousands? Any time you try to use your powers to escape you only find yourself in a slightly altered version of the same thing. There's no one. Nothing grows, and eventually there's no tinned food or even insects left. But you don't even starve to death, even if you try you can't die. You only have eternity to think. You can't even escape that smell.

Eventually you wake on the ground in the cave again.