Fernando watches them walk away and discuss about the spirits. Only thing now on his mind is to get food and shelter before nightfall, and the only way he could get it is to follow them to the indian village and see what deals he can do there. He also wonders how long will it take his girls to find him. The hell what others think about the spirits, they have a plan which does not include the betterment of humanity and he knows it. At this point in time man should be establishing colonies on Mars and space stations everywhere, not stuck on the planet with just a a bit more individuals than New York City used to be.
 
Following them, he keeps his distance enough to hear them but stay outside of their attention.

"Do you mean why are we in a Mad Max world?" Hikaru asks. "Several things happened. The federal government kept barrowing more and more money to the point that what we were paying in interest was more than the gross national product. Excuse my commentary but when you see you are about drive over a cliff, hit the breaks. Don't keep on driving. The federal government drove over a cliff. There were all sorts of natural disasters and weird weather patterns. For example, a year after you disappeared, Japan experienced a major earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami killed more people than the earthquake. What's unusual is, before it was hit by the tsunami, three reactors in a nuclear power plant had shut down and disappeared. There were also wars. Approximately one third of the Earth's population died because of war."

"Everything ended forty years ago. We have been rebuilding ever sense with some places in the world progressing faster than others."

Hikaru stops and looks at Jeanette. "Jeanette, it's 2066. If Arik were alive today, he would be ninety-seven. He died three years ago in Charlton Hospital. He experienced chest pain so I drove him to the hospital. The next day he was dead."

Hikaru answers the question that wasn't asked. "Jeanette, all of the family members you know are gone. You have four nephews, all of them are in their forties, and they have families of their own."