"Yeah, there's a fuck ton of people to talk to about it, and not a one of them seems to have a better clue than you do, right now. Believe me," Jo says, taking in the girl and her sudden aggressive frustration with quite a bit of understanding. "They've been asked. Over and over and over again. There was an early network video about it, too."

"The only 'they' out there--" Jo nods beyond them, to the islands and crowds. "--aren't much more than townskeepers. They know about houses and rents and businesses, and that seems to be it." Beat. "And they aren't lying as well as those who can tell those things can tell so far."