"If even that long," Sabine agreed, thinking about a tiny town rarely given that much and a world where that was truer than the rabble let itself believe. It was so easy for people to cling to what they lauded from the past while forgetting, and making sure not to pass on, the history they didn't want.

"I don't even know how long it would take me if I tried to recall every book I've read into some location there." It was amusing to consider—the time and the creation. Not to mention that it could have been decades of them, book voraciously read every year since she was so small. Her parents have never bothered with the quirk of her fascination, and then, Jack has so readily loved them after she found him, too.

"They all stay in the Horizon, correct? Nothing made there has been pulled back here?" There's a second level to the question, and it slides without any earlier intention to lead to it. It'd be better for this strain of thought if they could, but it might betoken so much worse in several other ways if it could.