On the outside, Roz is the perfect farm worker — calm, careful, and tireless. But on the inside, something is changing. The longer she stays at Hilltop Farm, the more her thoughts drift away from the cows and the fields and back to the island she was taken from. The memories return in pieces. A goose calls overhead, and suddenly Roz is remembering the flock she once led. The wind moves through the grass, and she recalls the forest where she made her home. Most of all, she remembers Brightbill — the orphaned gosling she raised as her own son, who learned to fly and swim and survive because of her. These recollections are precious, but they are also painful. Roz has begun to feel something close to homesickness: a deep and sorrowful longing for a place, and a child, she may never see again. This is one of the most important turns in the story. A robot is not supposed to miss anything. A machine has no home and no family. Yet Roz, built in a factory and treated as a tool, carries a treasured memory of love inside her — and that memory will not let her rest. The farm has given her purpose, but it cannot give her peace. Slowly, quietly, Roz begins to realise that she does not want to stay.