The Reach evolved as Stella’s roots on Goat Island grew. It began as a wide, concrete visualization of the gap between herself and local life. Stella valued the island and the people who had come and gone, so much so that she saw no reason to experience neither Portland, nor Shaw’s supermarket. Her familial ties were strong, and she had a palpable understanding of the lifecycle of an island community. All of this grounded Stella to the land; she rather die on Goat Island than seek care on the mainland. This slow death that both her and her family had experienced was part of the cycle that she came to understand. The Reach began to narrow, for her as it had for many. This new conception of the Reach brought Stella towards spacetime, where memories and dreams meshed into her coming to terms with death. Spacetime was her community, as she saw it, it was the people she had lost on the island. For all of the others lost throughout her life, the Reach and spacetime also became intertwined. The visualization of her husband, of the hat, of the others who she’d seen pass in the community, allowed her to accept life and bridge the Reach. This cycle was not immediate, but rather a development where her dreams and reality became meshed into spacetime throughout the story. Her visualization of ghosts of those she knew both on the Reach and prior to her trip to death, made spacetime real and death calm.