When the roles are assigned, the script is written and the winnings are calculated in a tidy sum, the only way to free yourself from this obsession is either to break the game, or to win, and then... at a new stage, set your own rules. But before that, you still need to understand that everything that happens around you is a game and you, against your will, find yourself participating in it. So Charlie Novak had no doubt that her spaceship died on approach to the Earth, until she saw this very Earth, almost hit one of its sharpened edges and was convinced that everything that was happening was not a figment of her sick imagination.