The Sealand woman then comes down to the ground from her helicopter. She wore a shiny, white suit that was immune to the sticky weapon, she also had a fine aerosol spray can that dissolved the web. She saved the telepaths David, Petra, Rosalind and Michael.
The Sealand woman was dressed in white, she had perfect, white teeth and creamy, white skin with dusty pink cheeks. Her face was sculpted perfectly, and she was totally self-confident. She had blond, short hair. She might have represented an angel through her appearance, though her beliefs were not perfect. The narrator notes that she appears to have a halo above her (characteristic of angels). This subtly suggests that the flaws of religious beliefs still exist even for the advanced New Zealand telepaths. This idea that humans are imperfect is, of course, central to the Christian religion.
The Sealand woman told the Group that there was not enough fuel to go pick up Rachel. Michael, who is in love with Rachel (and vice versa), volunteered to back to Waknuk and stay there with her. No one knows they are telepaths, and they would await their chance to join David and Rosalind in New Zealand. They could not risk being in Waknuk and being discovered some day. They would sail for New Zealand.
The Sealand woman explained that the Fringe people were doomed to a terrible life, and that the normals got what they deserved. She doesn’t enjoy killing any creature, but only the fittest survive, and in this case, the fittest are the telepaths. This echoes Darwin’s theory of the evolution of survival of the fittest through natural selection. She admitted that someday, her race will be superseded by an even more powerful species of people or other creature, and that while the telepaths will desperately fight to preserve themselves, they will eventually lose. Nothing lasts forever, the world is always evolving: “... the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution...”
When David, Petra and Rosalind arrived in Sealand, David saw the very city he had dreamed of, with its hot sun, white beaches, flying machines and horseless carts. Most of all, he and Rosalind noticed the buzz of an entire population of telepaths. Rosalind, now feeling within her own element, cast off her emotional armour and could be her own self. As Petra flashed with excitement, her extreme power actually hurt all the people, who, by their complaint, confirmed Petra’s immense importance as the newest installment in the evolution of telepaths.
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