She shakes her head, not wanting to close her eyes, but unable to keep them open. She can still see the look in his eyes, like pulling down a movie screen and revisiting that dream in all its striking detail.

She panics for the briefest of moments when she reopens her eyes and can still see the blood on her hands.

"Was you and Ben," she goes on, voice unsteady. "And I kept hearing Fira and Demeter. And then I just picked up the rifle and I--"

Bang.

She swallows, but her voice continues to lose strength.

"You were all talkin' so loud, and there was all that blood and I... I was in my schoolhouse and Trout kept grabbin' me and I just... I didn't..."