Girl escapes via fantasy in the cage and the rest of the women don't like that she appears to have some secret.

She becomes a human clock via heartbeat and an innate ability to count. they begin measuring days and guard shifts.

One "day" an alarm goes off and all the guards flee leaving the key in the unlock. The women venture outside and are hesitant to return even for supplies. They do.

They find another bunker with women and continue walking for 2 years. Dorothy (old, mean one from Part I who wanted to know the girl's secret) dies. Mary Jane kills herself to escape stomach pains.

silent gratitude of a woman receiving death at my hands. None wanted to endure pain…

After they set up little villages, all the other women slowly die off.

10yrs later, the woman continues exploring with more sophisticated means of keeping track of where she's been, visiting lots of other bunkers (feat men, too – dying with dignity giving us the title as she encounters someone she respects, having never known his kind). She eventually stumbles upon a bunker a la Lost with supplies, books, clothes, and a bed. She feels almost sociopathic because of her inability to feel the emotions that are supposed to be conjured by Don Quijote, Dostoyevsky, etc.

She continues making excursions, seeking answers as to what happened. Decides that she'll have to deal herself a death blow like she did to her fellow inmates.

I have spent my whole life doing I don't know what, but it hasn't made me happy.

Link to crime and punishment by referenced.

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