"Nah, it's okay. Nothing a little advanced healing spell can't fix," Eddie says, knowing she won't understand the reference. They just sort of spill out at times. "Dungeons and Dragons thing, I can't really cast healing spells."

He hasn't talked about it much, how scary it had been, how sure he had been of his own inevitable death. Back in the Upside Down, he doesn't know what happened, how it ended. Steve and Robin don't know, neither does El, and he's keeping his distance from Chief Hopper. Not that he's done anything wrong in Darrow, he just knows the man doesn't like him much.

But he can't talk about it now. Not with Chrissy. Not with what she's gone through.

"It's not so bad," he tells her. "You'll have a place of your own. Money." And she's alive.