““Why must you have this map?" she asks. "Even with a map, you will never leave this Town." She brushes away the bread crumbs that have fallen on her lap and looks toward the Pool. "Do you want to leave here?" she asks again. I shake my head. Do I mean this as a "no", or is it only that I do not know? "I just want to find out about the Town," I say. "The lay of the land, the history, the people, ... I want to know who made the rules, what has sway over us. I want even to know what lies beyond." She slowly rolls her head, then fixes upon my eyes. "There is no beyond," she says. "Did you not know? We are at the End of the World. We are here forever.””
