"When we're bobbing back home?" Kate asked, laughing as she helped push the canoe further from the shore. With a glance back over her shoulder, she watched the island slowly get further away and while she knew they were still close enough to swim back easily, even without the life jackets, she still liked watching it slip away. It wasn't the same as hopping a plane to some remote location, but it wasn't bad either.

"I looked at a map in the Council office," she said, dipping the oar in and out of the water slowly, getting a feel for it. "Asked some questions. There are ruins over there and a village and apparently a bunch of shipwrecked boats."

She wanted to know what has caused them to wreck, if it was an accident or a storm or something else. Given the way the island worked most of the time, she wouldn't be surprised to discover it had been something she thought was fictional or impossible.