[For anyone else, maybe it would've been a little less of that -- unnerving. For Noel, though? The life he's been living has been anything but good, prosperous, or successful. It's been more like some kind of half-existence, stuck somewhere between life and death. Other people get by. That's their right. Him? He can't move past the fact that it's all his doing.]

My-- [...friend, he stops himself from saying.] Someone I know -- he saw a sister, too.

[His eyes are on the lake, arms folded over his chest.] It wasn't the first time they did something like that, either. Showing us visions of things from home. Seems like they're trying to get a rise out of us, sometimes.

[Wouldn't surprise him at all if that does turn out to be the case.]