"Or maybe they got the choice to leave," Effy ponders aloud, staring around at everything else in the hut, twirling lightly on her toes as she overturns everything, touches it, as though that might call back something of the people who were here before, enough for them to demand some answers to the mystery otherwise unsolved. "Maybe everyone vanished at once 'cause it was their choice."

It sounds hopelessly optimistic coming from her lips, and Effy's nose wrinkles from it.

"But we're finding them now. Parts of their lives... all this shit. Kind of romantic, leaving behind their lives for us to find."