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Lianne asked this question about The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3):
What was the significance of waiting 1000 years before returning to North America?
Caroline After 1,000 years, the virals should have been extinct, and I think I MIGHT know the answer to this. I finished the third book a few weeks ago and dec…moreAfter 1,000 years, the virals should have been extinct, and I think I MIGHT know the answer to this. I finished the third book a few weeks ago and decided to reread part one of book one to look for any clues and reread about Zero. On page 21 of the hardback version, at the very bottom, Jonas writes in an e-mail message to Paul this:

' . . . but along the river, a deep ravine with cliffs of limestone pocketed with caves. Even an amateur geologist could read these cliffs like the pages of a book. The usual layers of river sediment, and then, about four meters below the lip, a line of charcoal black. It's consistent with the Chuchote legend: a thousand years ago the whole area was blackened by fire, "a great conflagration sent by the god Auxl, lord of the Sun, to destroy the demons of man and save the world." '

I never would have remembered this part; it's such a tiny detail. I don't know for sure, but it's something. (less)
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