"That's what I wondered. I did a school report on it. The founders left to go to the Abarat for slave trading and to buy magic, but they never came back. The last surviving Murkitt killed himself in the only hotel in town when he thought his wife Diamanda left him for another man. She didn't, though, she was a priestess in the Abarat. And that's what I miss. The other world. Not Chickentown. It flooded and dissolved off of the map, thank goodness." She chuckled and smiled when the waiter came back to set the wine down. Thanking him, she took a sip.