Beautiful. 
 Short, but very, very beautiful. 
 Viola's doubt and denial of the existence of such a simple thing, an aspect, that everybody else on the ship worships. She can't stand hearing the word everywhere, because she's frightened of it. 
 Hope. 
 Because what if the new world isn't what everyone thinks it will be? 
 A brilliant short story serving as the prequel to Patrick Ness' amazing trilogy, Chaos Walking. Telling us what hope is, why it is. Why we need it. 
 Viola's journey to New World, before she meets the settler boy and his talking dog, before she's running for her life, before she and one other person are forced to stand alone against an army. 
 Before she believed in hope. Before hope was the only thing she had.