- Six weeks later: Alice is still in Training, which Bob is not happy about.
- Bob is back from whatever mission took him away.
- Juan is back and Miri is talking to him.
- Lena hasn't contacted Robert, but he still leaves her messages.
- Xiu Xiang moves out of Rainbows End.
- And Robert is still working for Comms-R-Us. His work takes him to the UCSD library to study haptics (feeling illusions) and how you could make that internet-accessible.
- After the damage of the Library Riot, the library has been totally repaired, but not restored.
- And inside, after all that fight between belief circles, everything is peaceful: there are Hacek places and Scoochi places and places where both exist and you can choose between them.
- Robert runs into Carlos Rivera. They talk about library stuff and about the belief circle situation.
- They also talk about Rabbit and his promises.
- Not all of which came true: Dean Blount is back working for the university as an administrative assistant. (The current dean was actually a secretary back in the old days.) So maybe Dean will work his way up the hard way.
- But Carlos got his wish: he can still speak Mandarin Chinese, but only when he wants to. Was it Rabbit keeping his promise or just a coincidence?
- Carlos thinks Rabbit is still around and still helping out.
- Robert is worried—he's happy with who he is now, he's happy being a math-whiz instead of a poetry genius. But his last thought in the book is "What if I can have it all?" (68).