Zelu flies into Chicago and goes to her parents' house to finally tell her family about the upcoming space mission, which #Adventure will announce in three days. She first speaks privately with her mother, who reacts with shock, fear, and accusations that Zelu is suicidal and rejects her family's protection. Zelu pushes back, insisting that their care is what made her into who she is, and that going to space is a chance she must take. Her mother softens, conceding that Zelu's late father would have gone too, and calls them both adventurers.

Zelu visits her old bedroom, mourning the dead English ivy her father had given her and reflecting at the desk where she wrote Rusted Robots. She then gathers her siblings—Chinyere, Tolu, Bola, Amarachi, and Uzo—and explains everything: the NDA, the meetings, and her rigorous training, including centrifuge runs, g-force flights, underwater drills, and progressively riding Space Mountain. To her surprise, Chinyere concedes admiration, and the rest erupt in excitement, fear, and pride, agreeing their father would have loved it.

Over jollof rice and plantain, the siblings credit Zelu with manifesting her childhood astronaut dream. Zelu lets their interpretation stand, accepting that no one—not her siblings, not even Msizi—will ever fully understand her. Walking out into the cold, she silently thanks her father.

Back home alone, Zelu senses something different in her body and intuits she is pregnant. A drugstore test the next morning reads negative, but she trusts her instinct. Three weeks later, just days before launch, a second test confirms it. At forty, she is pregnant—and tells no one, not even Msizi, determined that nothing will stop her from going to space.

On launch day, Zelu wakes, uses the bathroom, and whispers to her belly that they are going to space. Msizi, terrified and not fully reconciled to her trip, hides under the blanket and asks her to stop joking about dying. She promises not to, but privately finds the thought of never returning strangely exciting.