"Yeah, I was an elementary school teacher in Barnstead, little place a bit outside of Concord. One of those ritzy little towns full of old money, but the private school job was too good to pass up. And my focus was on early childhood, I always wanted to teach the little ones."

And it had paid well, well enough for Nadine to live comfortably enough in a small house of her own - bought, not rented.

"I'd left New Hampshire before coming here, things went bad in my world. In general, all over. There was nothing left me for there, my husband was currently on the other side of the country...I think I was in Nevada before I got pulled here."

Or a bordering state, she's not entirely sure. It had been the desert, she hadn't paid much attention to the road signs. They hadn't been guiding her, she'd followed that thing inside that could feel him, that just knew where he was. That thing that's gone now.

"What were you doing there?"