"Yes," he answers solemnly. "I need to know." Not just that. If others go to that place, they will be as helpless as he was the first time. He could do something. He could help, somehow.

That leads nicely to her next question. "The Village may try its hardest to break me, but I will have something this time that I did not the last, I will have allies I can trust. I will not be alone. I think that is what will make it easier."