"Well," she says, "it's okay if you can't be. Though even just living here is going to help the island's economy -- the population's still low, and having more people here is good on its own. But ... as far as the curse and so on, I don't think that's a purpose any of us were shaped to. We're gonna do what we can with it anyway."

A pause. "Do you want to be useful? Cause there's bound to be something you can do, but like I said, you don't have to."