Arriving cautiously at the rim of the cliff, she saw that her surmise was 
true. The ocean—the one constant in all the world—the place from 
where she had come as an infant, from which the Land Beyond had grown out of 
King Coyote's seed, and into which it had dissolved—the ocean was alive. 
Since the departure of King Coyote, Princess Nell had supposed herself entirely 
alone in the world. But now she saw cities of light beneath the waves and knew 
that she was alone only by her own choice.