Morena sternly asks Borksen to confirm her choice one final time — no changes after this. Borksen meets her eyes and confirms 'Yes' with an empty face, while inside she screams and claws to take it back, then tells herself to stop: it is not true that she wants out. Mizaistom works the clock: if Benjamin is infected, he has at most 24 hours, and the martial law has bought them a day.