บท 69: "How Could This Have Happened?"

A helicopter is flying high up in the air with Silpheed piloting it. 

Riding in the back, Squad 1 is sitting silently. Briggs with his golden cape off, is sitting next to Tristen, 19, black hair and a trimmed beard, with his brown left eye and right IceEye in its base-kit form. 

The young man is looking out the open side of the 'copter. The late afternoon sun is perfectly over the three Sister Mountains. Tristan lifts up his polaroid camera to his IceEye and the flash goes off. The instant photo slides out and Tristan stares at it with his human and base-kit eye, waiting to finish developing. 

The two young women of the squad are sitting on the other side of the copter. 

The female with an IceEye, Bethany, looks over at Tristan and snickers at the young photographer.