Consequences

Kitty now saw that the location of the Last Window was not coincidental at all.  Her father had told her he was born in this town, but in a way he had been; here was where he had begun his life as an Outlier.  When that life began to unravel he’d come back to the Last Window, in the hopes that he could find a way back to the world he’d abandoned.  That was why Kitty lived in the same city as the Last Window, and that was why they had found her father dead just across the road from the soccer field.  He hadn’t committed suicide, or died of exposure. 

He’d died trying to return to his world.