"You'll need it here," she says. "There's a lot of people, it's a pretty big city. A lot bigger than where I grew up." Maybe not bigger than Atlanta, but they'd only ever gone into Atlanta for special occasions. Most of her life had been spent in that small, quiet town on their small, quiet farm and she'd liked it that way.

But so much had changed and she'd changed with it.

"I don't know the exact population, but it's in the thousands for sure. There's people everywhere. Not much here is quiet except the forest and the cemetery, I guess. Maybe the suburbs."