"No," she agrees. "It's not." Aggie's bluntness is somehow more reassuring than if she'd tried to say something gentler; even though she's desperate to return home, Rosie's almost glad they've met up here, together for whatever comes next.

The bit about the pirates--real, actual pirates--makes her eyes go briefly wide. It shouldn't sound so ridiculous, not after everything else, but somehow it's still not what she'd expected the other girl to say at all. "That explains why we hadn't known you were here," she says. "We all got divided up somehow."