"...Davis and I -- we'd spent rather a long time trying to access those areas. Over the years, we'd come up with a dozen theories about what could be found. A way home -- naive, certainly. Or some method by which to ease the madness in the children born to this world. Anything. We wanted and wished and hoped for anything, Miss Sage, that might make life a little more bearable.

We never thought it might make it worse. Or perhaps we did, and didn't want to acknowledge those fears to each other."