"Think so," Effy says thoughtfully, drawing from things she learned in class back in college without even thinking too greatly about it. People have always been more interesting to her, though, than anything else she's learned in class. "Don't think they were born here. Don't think it was evolution. 'Cause what's the odds that starting from whatever the fuck kind of primate they were before, they'd still come up with huts and houses that look like ours?"

She finds a small stuffed animal— an elephant, if she's to guess— in the corner, constructed out of scraps of cloth.

"Dunno if this place would leave just one person, though. It'd drive anyone mad."