Summary

The day after the retrospective, Elaine misses her plane back home because she has fallen asleep in her clothes and overslept. She takes a walk to the bridge and sees that it has been cleaned up. She remembers the time she fell into the creek, thinking that no one really floated down to save her. She sees a vision of the school girl version of Cordelia on the path, looking at her with her closed, defiant expression. Elaine feels the presence of the same dark feelings she experienced during those times, the wish to be loved, the fear. But now she understands these are no longer her own emotions, but Cordelia’s, as they always were. Feeling that she is the stronger one now, Elaine does not want Cordelia to stay out in the cold. She tells Cordelia it is all right and she can...