Part 5, Chapter 4 Salvage Summary

Toby enters a long green valley. He has been running from the mechs so long, he no longer remembers exactly why. Toby comes upon many dead bodies. Some are torn apart by explosions. Others are suredead, killed instantly without physical injury when all their memories are pulled out. He encounters a lean woman, salvaging Aspects from the dead. Toby argues that they will be useless, but the woman says she may be able to cut them down to Faces. The woman introduces herself as from the Banshee people. Toby says he is Bishop. Neither has ever heard of the other's tribe.

Toby reads one of the Aspects. It is from the Buddha Gathering, which Toby assumes is another family like the Bishops. He takes the bag of Aspects. He will give them to the first Buddha Family member he...