An official media advisory from Incident Command urges evacuees who own property in contamination zones to register those properties so Incident Command can communicate status updates efficiently.

Nearly seven weeks into the evacuation, Harmony Addams-Paul writes another letter to her Aunt Beckie from the shelter. She reflects on the surreal experience of being quarantined while the rest of the world carries on normally. She has encountered few familiar faces from home, and her mother believes the evacuation was mishandled, scattering people from the same communities into different camps. No one appears ill from the contamination, though obsessive hand-washing has become routine. Harmony has been writing articles in her journal but cannot mail her letters due to a lack of stamps.

Two months into the evacuation, Harmony writes a journalistic article about how young people at Camp Rogers are carving out private spaces in communal housing. Edison “Teddy” Brenkert takes advantage of his elderly roommates’ early bedtimes for solitude. Ashanti Johnson has converted a corner of a medical storeroom near her mother’s infirmary into a reading nook. Harmony herself hangs a bedsheet from the top bunk to create privacy in the room she shares with her mother and younger sister.