[Vesper did wonder about that. What was their purpose here? Why had they been pulled from whatever world they lived in and dropped in the middle of an island in Canada?

If this was hell, then she certainly deserved it. But there were people here who didn't and obviously it was a growing, thriving population with births and deaths.

So what was the point?]

You make an excellent argument. I do wonder why we've all been taken from our lives somewhere else and dropped here. It makes no sense if we're just going to live day-to-day, the only exciting thing being to avoid the Darkness.