I know, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't know or that everyone else should hear it first.

It makes me feel like I'm already dead. That ... [Frowning, she stops that line of thought and delicately applies the cream to the cut. It turns a pinkish color, but she ignores that and moves to get the gauze and starts to layer that on top of his palm.]

I have ten minutes left as a human if I ever go back. If things stay the way they say they go.

Derek comes for me in the hospital. That's where I was. That's not a lot of time to do much of anything. Ten minutes and everything is different.

[She reaches for the tape and cuts a strip off.]

Then I'll be the person Isaac expected to see when he ran into me on the street that first day. [She pulls the tape tight around his palm and presses it to the back of his hand.]

Is that too tight?