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“Survival is Insufficient” notes painted on one of the Traveling Symphony’s cart trucks i t’s not enough just to live once you’ve figured out survival, then what? Is anything else important? John Adams acknowledged the need to study politics and war so that society could be built for more peaceful purposes for his sons and grandchildren.
 * from Star Trek Voyager
 * but just surviving is definitely the first step
 * art? music? doing things well? craft? cooking?

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Plot – Prophet’s people are picking off members of the Traveling Symphony Kirsten is getting close to the Severn City Airport Traveling Symphony From the control tower
 * kidnapping to swap for the runaway girl
 * happy to kill if people don’t cooperate
 * but killing isn’t easy for his people
 * is kidnapped, believes she’s about to be killed by 15-year-old
 * he’s crying
 * boy kills the Prophet
 * other members of the Symphony kill the other Prophet’s men
 * boy kills himself
 * why? He killed the “light-bringer”
 * first kill? Too much to live with
 * he took out the center of his belief system
 * what did he have left?
 * Prophet made all decisions
 * what now?
 * stay 5 – 6 weeks at Airport
 * Kirsten meets Clark, sees the museum
 * leaves one of the comics
 * see a grid of a town with electricity!