No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.

At some point in the journey of being in it for yourself, you realize you need other people. Any good frontier story, in some respect, is about that.