It feels like he keeps saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and usually Eddie wouldn't give a shit. This feels different, though, he feels like he has to try harder, and Eddie is quiet again, rubbing his thumbnail against his lower lip as he tries to figure out where to start.

"Time is sort of different here," he says to start. "It's like... a lot of time has passed since we were in my trailer. Almost a week. It was happening to other people, too. That kid Fred, the one with the scar. McKinney, on the basketball team. This girl Max, too, the one whose brother died at the mall."

Eddie chews his lower lip and exhales slowly. "We went to where it lived. To try and kill it."