As for the man who sought to apologise to the gods, his wish was granted. But Ardashir escaped with his life.
In 1989 a child sees a man die on a television screen, and she doesn't know how to save him. She spends her time watching the road into the Scheleirland National Forest from her bedroom window, counting the campers who went into the forest, never seeing them come back out. From next door she hears her neighbour sing. By 2015 everyone else is gone, her neighbour an empty shell, burnt out by the world. A family stops by her house on their way into the forest. She thinks, just maybe, she can save them. Maybe this time she can go back, and somehow save them all.