The two finally meet, after 4 parts! Although, I wouldn't say it was a smooth meet up. P.S. --- means its switching POV

Our female protagonist climes the hill up to the launch site, it was presumable abandoned. But so did her male counterpart.

We return to our male protagonist as he struggles with the elements.

The story moves over to the second main characters as she struggles with her studies as a physicist.

The main character leaves his shelter in order to find essentials to survive. A unconscious pull takes him to his past.