"I haven't been able to discover the reason for it and I have been here nigh upon two years now," Jon explained. "We mostly help one another here, though, so if we are all exiles it seems that we are good people in spite of it. There has not been anyone to come here and do harm to others."

If there had been, Jon would have been among the first to stop them. As it was, it seemed that they were pitted against this world itself and not one another.

"If you are skilled in herbs, that will help many of us. There isn't much medicine here."