We always need someone like her at these kinds of games, those who seem doomed within society, but who, in a high-pressure environment, can either rise again or be destroyed. Vanessa was just trying to pass her college courses to have something secure in this life, or so it was before, when the world worked. A Philosophy degree wasn't going to do much to put food on the table tomorrow; at least volunteer work offered a fair alternative. Now, without music or books that can help her to disconnect from the real world, she would have to survive this nightmare.