Trevize worries about the virus, wondering if there's something that might activate it or that he might suffer ill effects anyway. He considers the fact that Hiroko could have been lying about the virus being inactive at all. Bliss, able to detect all sorts of life forms, agrees to mentally search for the virus and to eradicate it if she can. The reader never learns the outcome of that situation. Fallom comes to the conclusion that she is different and questions that difference. She asserts that when she is returned to her home, she'll power Jemby and be happy. Bliss cries with the child and later admits that she was on the verge of telling Fallom that she was the cause of Bander's death. Bliss says she couldn't do it for fear.....
