[She beckons Noel to sit down across from her once she scurries back to her own chair and settles in, taking a sip of her cocoa before nodding, some whipped cream on her upper lip going unnoticed.]

I have been. I've been to the library, and asked people about what they know, and I found some things out. Things about the island and what's happened in the past that I didn't even know about.