The idea of being on another planet would have made Ema squeal in scientific curiosity; to Lana, it was just another completely ridiculous piece of information that didn't fit with anything else she knew. Except in that everything here was ridiculous.

"Then why the charade in the first place? Why this entire town? It's one giant contradiction." She folded her arms and glared out at the main drag, as if she could will it into making sense. It worked better on witnesses and scatterbrained detectives than on pavement. "I just get the feeling that if we could figure out why they're doing this, we'd have some way of changing things."