"I don't know," Veronica admitted, smile twisting sheepishly for just a moment. It was hardly a favorite phrase. "Whoever set this place up. Or got rid of the first batch of people here. The Compound was here before any of the current settlers. The ones before us might have built it, but not all of it." She still remembered when that had happened, the sudden, strange, overnight growth of a building, out of nowhere, like the elevator after it.

Her smile widened and she dropped her head. "I don't really have any evidence," she said. "I just keep trying to figure it out anyway."