He does that smile that starts the I know you know I know game, except it means he knows she's not going to shoot him in the head. She lowers the gun, but she's still holding it. Her finger is still on the trigger.

If she shoots off his hand, he'll kill her. It's be a good ending. Come full circle.

It's a very dramatic thing to think, and that appeals to the part of her that's seventeen and angry with blood on her hands. The only thing that doesn't work is the very real knowledge that it won't be fast. How could it be? He won't have any hands.

"We both know that's not why you're here." She rolls her eyes and doesn't look him in the face. Shit. She doesn't want to kill him, but if she's going to die, she wants to be taken seriously. With that same stupid dramatic interest from before, a plan forms in her mind. "Come on," she says, "I'll show you something."

She turns her back on him, and starts walking down a hill to their left.