But she doesn't know if he's right about that. She doesn't know if Daryl is really here or if he's just gone, just back to Georgia like all the others. Maybe she's the only one left in Darrow, maybe this is what she's made for now, this awful place with the ash and its monsters, with that terrible version of her creeping out of the dark and telling her everything she's never wanted to hear.
Reminding her that she's weak. That she'd failed. That she wasn't able to be strong.
"You saw me," she says. "The... that other version of me." She glances down at her left wrist and her bracelets are gone. She's glad she hadn't been able to wear the watch Daryl had given her for her last birthday, she's glad she'd just wrapped some cheap, beaded bracelets over the scar this morning before ending up here, because if the watch had fallen off out there, she knows she wouldn't be able to stand it. But the beaded bracelets must have snapped in the fight and now her wrist is bare, her scar visible. "I tried. I... my mom had just died. But I didn't do it. All that stuff she said, it's wrong."
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But she doesn't know if he's right about that. She doesn't know if Daryl is really here or if he's just gone, just back to Georgia like all the others. Maybe she's the only one left in Darrow, maybe this is what she's made for now, this awful place with the ash and its monsters, with that terrible version of her creeping out of the dark and telling her everything she's never wanted to hear.
Reminding her that she's weak. That she'd failed. That she wasn't able to be strong.
"You saw me," she says. "The... that other version of me." She glances down at her left wrist and her bracelets are gone. She's glad she hadn't been able to wear the watch Daryl had given her for her last birthday, she's glad she'd just wrapped some cheap, beaded bracelets over the scar this morning before ending up here, because if the watch had fallen off out there, she knows she wouldn't be able to stand it. But the beaded bracelets must have snapped in the fight and now her wrist is bare, her scar visible. "I tried. I... my mom had just died. But I didn't do it. All that stuff she said, it's wrong."