Stone considers what story to tell, and goes with Moon's. It's one with a happy ending. "My people are called Raksura. We live in colonies in the mountain-trees of the western Reaches-- a thick forest where life exists on the ground, and in a second world up in the canopies. There was a time when many of our colonies flew east, searching for new ground-- some of those colonies were destroyed. One of them left behind a boy, still young enough to live in the nurseries. His name was Moon."