You lot were the eldest, you'd already parceled out the world between you.
She had tuned out the world to be with her own thoughts, so she didn't hear the other person enter the room until he spoke.
"She just sort of shuts out the world and quits seeing and hearing anything."
Like canaries editing out the wide world beyond the cage, residents learn to ignore that awkward fact.
He'd dedicated his career to pulling objective truth out the physical world.
Jenny closed her eyes as tightly as she could, seeking to blot out the world and everything around them.
Seven hundred years from now, the name of the first High Khan will be known and praised through- out the world.
"You seem to have lived a bit out the world."
Her tiny features held no answers; she was trying to do nothing more than figure out the strange new world in which she found herself.
But I see no salvation in tuning out the world.
