"We are the natives, as far as any of us can tell," she replies, knowing that with every question, they're just going further down a road that she doubts he's going to appreciate the answers. She eyes him warily and breathes out for a long moment, staring at the map before them. "I've tried to map the canyons as best as I can, but it seems like the horizon always keeps changing on me, without any hint of why or how," she says, tapping her fingers against the outer edges.

"As far as the people who lived here, we don't know what happened to them, but they're not here now. They left behind homes, though, one of them being the one we're currently in."