Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

“I wish we could live in this moment, right here, right now, and live in it fore…”

“I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because …”

“Real or not real?”

“Yes,” I whisper. The red blinking light on one of the cameras catches my eye. I…”