"They were teaching me things that I wanted to know and they answered my questions very well and they thought it was important that I understand everything so some day I could run it all well which was very exciting."

"Hmm."

Grandparents debate which schools are the best one.

"Do I get to pick?"

"Yeah, of course. We'll go around and look and see what we think of all of them."

"Okay."

Grandparents hang around a while longer talking and taking pictures and smiling at Lintalai.

Cameras are not new and she will smile for them.

They are so happy!!

Gosh. She will just adorably read through all the rest of her books then.

Then she will be familiar with the loose geography of Amenta and with lots of short rhyming stories about small children!

...the geography of Amenta is an "ish".

"Like, you knew some parts but not others?"

"Like I thought it was a little different..."

"Huh."

"...I think there is supposed to be a big lake here, and an island here, and less of that bit and less of that and more of that bit..."

...he frowns and takes notes.

"And the rest of it just looks a little funny but I don't know exactly how..."

He pulls up a forty-year-old satellite image. "Is this one any better?"

"...a little. It still doesn't have the island..."

"Where does the island go?"

She points it out again. It's near the coastal edge of the Tapa/Anitam border, for values of "near" that are maybe a hundred miles off.

He makes a note.

"Do you think you've been there, dear? Or just seen a map that had that on it?"

"I don't remember having ever been anywhere before I woke up in my basket. But it's the map looking wrong not counting the countries and wondering where that one is."