A Long Walk Chapter 16 Eventually, food ran low again. By this point, they were near Truro. Truro was much larger than Stewiacke, a medium sized town with some suburbs, a central hub in the province. Jasper didn't like the idea of using the same tactics here as they had been in the past. A larger town meant a lot more zombies. Different places should mean different tactics. Jasper took Robert aside, “Look, man, there’s way too many for the Stewiacke plan to work. We’re going to get pinned down, cut off, it’s too many.”