Rose's stability will some day end. But she won't look back on it fondly. In fact, she'll see all the ways it was stifling and confining and made her feel extremely small. She is actually small now though so that's less an issue.

"That's awful," she says. "What about people who need to go back home? What if their parents worry?" Rose knows her mother would be frantic if she was gone for too long. Mostly because she's not allowed to stray outside the village to begin with, but...