"Your friend Gert is right, it's bad to do stuff like that to people," Chloe says sagely. "That might've been what happened, or... well, I can't say I know what else. I suppose we could believe what we were told on the boat ride in."

She's come to believe some pretty weird stuff over the past few years.

"What do you think is beautiful here?" she asks after a moment. "I've always liked sunsets, myself."