"You could, but you're Aggie," she says, as though that settles the matter--and for her, it does. Though she knows next to nothing about the other girl's past, and only just enough to leave her in awe about that almost electrical magic she's able to do, Rosie trusts her far more than she does Peter. "You don't go around throwing people to the spiders or anything like he does."

Mentioning it only reminds her of it, and Rosie shudders. "Right. Also, there's gigantic spiders that live in the middle of the Island. I haven't seen one, I don't want to see one, but Jamie said that's where they live."