Rose doesn't know anything about New Mexico. But Milliways, at least, is a familiar word, if not entirely comforting--Susannah had emphasized, again and again, that Milliways was not safe, not to talk to anyone but the people they were meeting.

"No," she says; hesitates, then tells the truth. "I was supposed to be going there, but I came here instead. It wouldn't let me in."