- Pearl remembers how Hoyt's orchard looked that day; now hundreds of trees are just ash on the ground. Even the fence was liquefied in the fire.
- Back then, though, (in the time of the flashback story) everything was alive and growing.
- As Pearl approaches Amiel, she realizes that she should have brought water instead of coffee—he's sweating all over the place from working out in the hot sun.
- She hands a cup of coffee to Amiel and another to a worker named Gallo, then starts to ask them questions.
- We gather that it's strange for her to be out there talking to the workers like this, so they're not sure what to say to her, plus she doesn't know much Spanish. She tries to string words together to ask Amiel questions, though.
- Amiel notices her different colored eyes and stares into them. Gallo says something in Spanish, but Pearl only catches a couple words like cat and worlds.
- She thinks about how Amiel would whisper to her later on, Tú eres de dos mundos (you are of two worlds).