Oh... The 'transferring ring' device only worked with places previously visited. Then that explained why the girl hadn't used it to escape yet...she couldn't just teleport anywhere. And if she and Leanne had still woken up here in the morning, then perhaps it didn't matter how far they'd gotten away from the Institute grounds before the end of the night... Landel could bring them back regardless of their distance. (Something to remember.)

Still, making it all the way to a town was pretty impressive...even if that town wasn't the safest place to be at night, according to Leanne.

"Not surprising," Zero responded, still frowning. "Why shouldn't the nightly rules of the Institute apply to the areas surrounding it..." It made sense, after all. If Landel could control this whole Institute through whatever technology he used, who's to say he couldn't control the neighboring town, too?

And the prisoners were supposed to be taken to this town some days, huh... Wonder why. "So what else did you find there besides guns?"