None of what Kira ultimately did was what Karen had imagined, but they have some light at the end of it, and that's all that matters. The world seems to shrink to within the tiny circle of light, but better that than the yawning darkness.

"You said the others first came in here because one of them had had a vision?" she asks, mostly for something to say, a break in the scrape of their feet and distant drop of water.