[ Athena's hand slips free of the shadow's. She doesn't move, feeling out of place here, feeling like she's standing on the edge of one of those knock-down drag-out fights her parents used to have over her.

Then her shades are back, this time faint as wisps, their voices filling her ears. She can barely tell which one is which.

You're right, you know. You don't have a place here.

Trying to fit in where you don't belong and never will.

Just go, just let them do whatever the fuck it is they're gonna do and go home.

I'll show you how to get there, lover. I'll take you all the way back through the woods. I'll keep you safe.

She closes her eyes. ]

You're not fucking real, you're not fucking real. [ She blinks back tears, looking at Cam. ] They're fucking... they're fucking not real, Cam. They're trying to fuck with us. Remember? You said it.