If her Dad had just let her go to the stupid dance, she wouldn’t be stuck up here, strapped in a tree, waiting to die. She really wants to go home but she couldn’t bear for her Dad or brother to have to do it. So she will change, stuck up there, hoping someone else will eventually find her.

She was so angry and wanted to scare him a bit; get him to realize that he had to let her be a kid, which was better than not having her at all. Except it has totally bitten her on the ass.

No, like actually bitten her on the bottom. She was scouting a place to hole up for a while and there was a totally manky one in the bush she was standing next to. Just a torso and head, half propped up, leathery and decrepit. She wasn’t paying attention; she practically backed herself up to it. She doesn’t get how she can be so well trained yet this happens. She scrubs away hot tears of rage and frustration. So stupid, so dumb.

She guesses she is scared to die. But maybe more sad, sad about what could have been. She wanted to do things, see other places. And yes, even after Denise, maybe have a baby. Instead she is going to be an animated corpse in a tree, until someone puts her out of her rotting misery.

Awesome.