Zu listened. She imagined everything in her head. She didn't want to but it was just there. "Did it save her?" she asked immediately. Maybe her aunt would have been hurt worse if it hadn't been for her father's death. Zu desperately wanted it to mean something. It couldn't have been in vain.
There was something else about the tale, she only now properly connected to the diary entries. She had remarked that her cousin had felt guilty. Pennywise was that connection. It had been too much of a blurr to understand when she had read the text but now it was clear. No wonder he had felt that way.