↓ TranscriptEmily: This is awful. This is… … …knowing about it beforehand is just weird. Dee: You wanted to know. Emily: I know, and I’m glad you told me. It’s just… I just wonder, if everybody knew what I knew,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chapter 11
↓ TranscriptEmily: Think of the lives we could save! With your time travel and however it is you find dying people, you could… Dee (shrugging): I just go to the next person who’s going to die. That automatically means they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee: You know. Just that I have to do my job. Don’t kill anyone, don’t save anyone. If they’re dying, take their soul out. That’s all. Emily: What – Dee: Besides which, you can’t go around telling people that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptSOME DAYS LATER… (Emily arrives home from school. Ella is on the couch on the phone in the living room. Dee is looking at the wall calendar as Emily puts her backpack down.) Dee: Hello. Emily: Hey. (Emily goes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee: Do they mean deliberate as in someone lit a campfire deliberately and it got out of control, or- Emily: Arson. They mean arson. Dee: Maybe they didn’t hear about how bad the conditions were going to be. Emily:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee: That’s the problem. I’d rather not. It’s a fire, it’s ambiguous. Not like war. What – weren’t any of them sparked by, I don’t know, lightning? Emily: Yeah, but as far as I know, it was mostly the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee: How is- Emily: You know what your problem is? You’re a stupid optimist. Dee: I thought optimism was a good thing. Emily: But you’re doing it wrong! There are two kinds of optimist, Dee. Your kind is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: I mean, no offense or anything… Dee: Ha. Nah, you’re right anyway. Emily: … Hey, let’s play another game of scrabble. That’ll cheer you up, right? Dee: Oh, you want to be destroyed again? Emily: No way, I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…