"There are small settlements elsewhere," Yeul said, smiling slightly. "But I think the time for moving away from the pillar would have been back when it had all first happened and at that time, people could not do it because they had no idea of what was on the world they were forced to make a new home on."

She shook her head. "Before Cocoon fell, there was very little contact between it and the main land of Pulse. And the little contact there was between them was violent."