[ She finds herself ready to stay in that moment before August breaks away — and they're back to the real world. As real as it feels, anyway. ]

They tricked me into eating people like, fifteen minutes ago. So yeah, I gathered.

[ Annoyance directed at them, not him. Now she's frowning, instinctively wiping the corners of her lips. She looks down when she mutters, ] I think it was people. God, I don't even know. Maybe I hallucinated the whole thing.