Everything after the envelopes moved fast.
We were back at the house within the hour. Zoe and Lia moved through it with the efficiency of people who had already seen themselves out of that place for a long time and were finally allowed to act on it. Clothes and small personal items went into bags. Lia locked the front door without looking back at it.
Zoe looked back at it once.
Then we started walking away from it.
"What's a ferry?" I asked, after they mentioned it for the second time.
Lia glanced at me. "You don't know what a train is?"
"No."
"It's the easiest way to transport people for long distances." She shifted her bag on her shoulder. "You get inside, it moves, you arrive somewhere far away much faster than walking."
I tried to picture that. "I don't understand how a building moves at all."
