"I tried two at once. I got up to five, but couldn't keep them dancing around. They don't have to be points? Geometry could be interesting." And he goes back to playing with light.

After a while he experiments with fire, reasoning that it must be fairly easy since Promise lit up Yellow's house with a thought. He manages to light up a piece of wood after three hours' concentration.

And finally, below them is a decent-sized forest with a river running through it, not surrounded by any particularly harsh terrain features. Nick estimates they are more than 20000 miles from where they started. He sounds vaguely irritated about it.