Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem