Old Light and a Question
- Cheap passage
- A quick catch
- Busier than the day
- Passage slackens
A girl of about six stood at the foot of Hob’s Landing with her hand up. Why does the Lantern go dim, she asked, when it’s the only light there is? Ansel Crake did not look up from his wick. Because it’s old, he said, and it’s paying us out what it has left. She thought about that, then asked whether it would miss us. He said it had never had the chance to notice us at all.