Chapter Twenty-Five

Michael’s adventure into Gwen’s reality is my own Through The Looking Glass moment.  Everything he thought he knew is being turned on its head and twisted.  She’s not being trapped, she’s being protected.  Chuck is real.  But he handles it with far more grace than I think I could manage in similar circumstances.  Even in the middle of a complete paradigm shift, he takes the time to try and help both Gwen and Chuck.

Having Eric use Rogers as a messenger to Gwen to tell his family to run was just cool.  Eric has been asked to kill someone and he’s got a sister who talks to dead people.  It’s just neat no matter how you look at it.

This is the moment when Dani decides she can’t hold back any more.  She is tired of hating herself and feeling like she’s letting everyone down.  If sacrificing herself is what it takes to rescue her family, she’ll do it.  It hasn’t quite made it to her conscious mind yet though.  From a higher perspective, she’s not ready to make that decision yet.  Her impulse is still more suicidal than accepting her role.