Chapters 31-32 and Epilogue Summary

Kate and Peer are together in Chapter 31. The Elysians have gone and they appear to be alone in the city. Kate suggests slowing down their rate to move into the future of Elysium to see if they ever come back. Peer programs it, but the city simply stays the same. The Elysians do not come back.

Kate is depressed. She needs to live among people, she tells him. Peer says they will launch their own universe. He will populate it with copies of himself as different people to keep her company. That is what he has been doing anyway, changing himself into a different person one after another for centuries. He will simply create them all at once. Kate is touched by the idea.

In Chapter 32, Durham sits at a console preparing to launch a new Garden...