She laughs outright at that, keeping it muffled to just a delighted giggle. "Oh Aglet, there's so much more out there," she says. "Things you've never imagined! Things you'd see differently than I could, than - that anyone here could! It would be so marvelous. How would you even know if you never go out to see?"

Granddaddy used to say this to her, when she was smaller and more easily frightened by the unknown. It was through him that she learned to cherish and even desire it. She hopes that she inherited a bit of his profound powers of persuasion.