amount of the book meeting a bunch of characters. William, an American GI who is the only survivor of his squad teams up with them, only to start attacking them when he unknowingly has PTSD night terrors. Later, he gets into a mode where he is looking for Vietcong and almost kills them. Kitty is able to navigate them away safely, because she can see when he has a dangerous aura. They end up in a Vietnam village, where kitty helps fight off a snake that is killing villagers. She is able to heal a woman who was bitten by the venomous snake using the amulet. Later, the village brings her more people to help save, and kitty is able to connect using other people to use their collective energy to heal. During this time, kitty starts to dream that she is some of the people who had touched the amulet/ helped her heal others, building intense bonds. She is able to experience/ feel/ understand them, even with language barriers. She meets a villagers who were raped by GI’s, and sees a fuller picture of how Vietnamese villages live in a catch-22 of being threatened/ bombed by either the Vietcong or the Americans based on their actions, and are caught in the middle. The Vietcong overtakes the village and the villagers are able to convince the captain to take her hostage but keep her safe. She becomes separated from her child companion and hopes for a better life for him. Kitty is then faced with seeing the decent side of the Vietcong, who take care of her. Soon, though, she experiences the same people murdering a family. She helps heal a Vietcong soldier who is wounded, but his commander later shoots him because he would slow them down. Kitty talks with the commander, who touched the amulet and is now connected to her - he points out how the amulet is dangerous in the hands of any military and will be abused. He doesn’t want to let her heal villagers, so she doesn’t become a folk hero, but also how the US military will exploit her amulet powers if they learn as well. When kitty is rescued, the Americans don’t believe her story and she is exposed to inhumane / evil sides of the US military. She gets transferred to a military hospital. While there, it isn’t clear if she’s