The lights Shard saw in the rain and mist before entering the town were the sporadic street lamps and the gas lights from a few windows. Although there were no townspeople visible on the late-night streets for the moment, if one closed their eyes and listened carefully, they could hear, amidst the sound of rain, a faint sense of heartbeats coming from the houses.
This indicated that the town was indeed "alive," and if Green Lake Town had never fallen into decline, the town on the real island would be like this.
Although anxious to go deeper into the island to find Megan, Shard entered a house by the roadside to check the state of the sleeping townspeople inside.
