"No, everyone else I know knocks first," she says with a smile, though it fades a little. She knows how weird this all has to be, because the last thing Carla Jean would have known is last Halloween and she's aware of how much things have changed for her in that time. It's been a full year.

"I guess you've figured out the whole time thing is, uh... a little different," she says as they head toward the apartment building. "I mean, it's been ten months since I got here, like I said. A whole year since everyone was seeing stuff on the island." She knows it's probably easier for Carla Jean to accept than it might be for someone who'd never been on the island, but it still can't be the sort of thing that a person just adjusts to without a little time.