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‘You don’t want to go to the Neverafters, not young things like you,’ she said kindly.

‘Why not?’ asked Aurora, ‘what’s wrong with it?’

‘It’s just a bit wild and off the beaten track,’ said the woman. ‘It’s very hard to get to, you’ll never find it. Even with a map, it’s almost impossible to locate. The only people who ever find the Neverafters are those who want to be forgotten: the outcasts, the misunderstood, the scapegoats and the truly heartless. They always seem to find the path; it’s as if they are drawn there. It’s not so much a place as a gap on the map where perhaps something was but is no longer.’
—Lyn Gardner/Out of the Woods