Susan called it the Memory Hall. Jude agreed with the name.
One evening, as they sat inside the Memory Hall with dusk falling outside, Grace posed a question: "If the island is shaping itself based on us… what happens if we start to change ourselves?"
"You mean deliberately?" Lucy asked. "Force its hand?"
"No," Grace said, eyes steady. "Guide it. Make it better. Teach it how to be something beautiful."
Emma nodded. "But we'd have to be careful. If it learns from our flaws…"
"It already has," Jude said. "We've seen what that looks like."
"But if it learns from our love," Layla whispered, "maybe it can become more than a monster."
Scarlet smiled faintly. "Maybe it already has."