The world is finished, the lifeless walk the planet earth, and a profound silence has fallen within the land. A huge selection of miles east of the occasions of Component 1, a parallel tale unfolds… A stressed woman marches western across the great, barren prairie. Suffering from a mental stress, she’s barely alert to the grim changes that have consumed the globe around her. She avoids the inactive, hides from people, and wanders westward within a daze. Hungry and tired, she finds her way to Montana, where she is taken prisoner on an Indian booking run by a guy with an iron fist and a cold heart.

Component Two of an ongoing series.