"No way," Kate says, glancing to the body briefly. She remembers that Halloween well. It had turned out no one was crazy, really, that the things they'd been seeing had all manifested and she'd done her best to keep out of the way and lay low that day. In the same instant, she realizes how much time has passed between them. A full year, really, time in which Kate had disappeared from the island and come to Darrow instead, time in which a lot of things had changed.

And yet she's so happy to see Carla Jean that she doesn't think a single one of those changes will matter.

"Should we do something about him?" she asks, her hand still on Carla Jean's arm. It's like she thinks letting go of her means she'll disappear again and that's not something Kate's about to let happen.