She hooked his arm to get him to wait. He roughly jerked his arm free."What's going on?" she asked."Talk to Regan if you want to know," Chris hissed. ...No, better not. She'd just lie to you, too. Joy will give you the story if you really want it."Elizabeth was still pondering her options when Ruth came out of the house."Wait for me," she yelled to Chris. "I'm through with her too if that's how she's going to be." Ruth!" Elizabeth said loudly. "What is going on?" Some guy from New York that Regan. That I'm Sooo glad you're not." I wasn't dead," she said. "But I don't know why." Tell me," I said."When the wheel broke the tie-rod and the A-frame collapsed I thought, 'Shit!' I wasn't expecting the car to bounce over the kerb. The barge was just another problem." She sighed. "Then we were underwater only you weren't there. I was sure I was going to be trapped under the barge. I was glad you weren't there." Why?" I wanted something ... but I wasn't sure what."Why what?" Why were you glad I. You will return to the exact spot you started at almost instantaneously.”“If I die or get killed or hurt…”“You will return in the same condition you are now, just one second older.”“Um… shit. When do you need to know? I can’t think of anything amazing just yet.”“You have one hour to decide.”“You know, I thought Santa would have been a little more… I don’t know. Jovial? You’re kinda salty.”“I do that for the kids. The adults? You just get regular old me. I’ll be back in an hour.”And just as. She was laughing hysterically as I repeatedly picked her up and play slammed her back down, then she turned the tables on me and threw me down on the bed, jumped on me and mock bounced my head off the pillow again and again. We got to rolling around to see who'd end on top, and as usual, she got the best of me and quoted Nala from our favorite movie “The Lion King.”“Haha pinned ya!”I wiggled to get up and we rolled around the rest of the bed until we rolled ourselves on the floor, where she.