Stella saw ghosts. They are the ghosts of the dead on the Goat Island, or in another way, a part of the crystallized past of Stella. She never thought about going to the mainland before, since she “never saw any reason to go”. She saw her granddaughter off to the Mainland to go to high school and she knew that “Jane was gone for good”. She understood there was a world outside, but she still wanted to stay in the island—froze with it. It’s not only in the physical way, but also in an emotional way: she is surrounded by her past—on her way to the Mainland, with all of the dead people she knew, and then she dead. She was frozen in the past, in the old spacetime: she never made it to the Mainland, and everyone she loved in different times appears all at once. She was frozen with them, the moment she left the island. That is her crystallizing outside the flows.