Lauren acquired this ability from her birth mother, who was addicted to Paracecto and died giving birth to Lauren. This ability is particularly difficult to deal with in the violent world in which she lives her father has taught her that she doesn't have to give in to this feeling, which she sees as a problem. Lauren finds these sights particularly difficult because she suffers from hyperempathy syndrome: she feels the pain of others as if it was her own. All of the adults in the caravan are armed - is is only safe to leave their walled communities in large groups, during the day, and with guns in hand. While riding through the city, Lauren and the other members of the caravan see a number of disturbing sights: corpses on the sidewalk, a confused naked woman wandering around, and a bloodied child.
Along with a group of other teenagers and their families, Lauren rides her bike out of their walled compound and into the city at large the families have decided they want their children to have a full-immersion baptism, which can only be conducted in a pool in a church across the city. Though the God of Lauren's father - who is a Baptist minister - is no longer her God, she still consents to be baptized. When Lauren wakes, she believes that this dream is a reminder that it's all a lie. Her stepmother reminisces about the time when the city lights would drown out the stars. The dream shifts to a decollation of hanging up clothes to dry with her stepmother while looking up at the stars.
On the night of Lauren Oya Olamina's fifteenth birthday, she dreams that she is floating through a house that is on fire.
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