"When the catastrophe struck, my sister and I were both children under ten,"
"Almost all adults died, and almost all the survivors were primary school children. Then, the first night's green nooses killed many more... I hadn't studied history by then, but I heard a sentence in a listening exercise: 'Only those with firm beliefs can reach the other shore of the night.' It was because of this that my sister and I barely made it through the night."
"When we were scavenging through the ruins, we encountered a group of older kids who planned to go to the Silent Spiral, because they found in the library that those who came out from the Silent Spiral were more likely to survive."
