Why was he staying here? Why did people just want to stay around her, she wanted them as far away as possible. But there he was, sitting there on the other side of the ice, looking at her. She had no idea what he was doing, what he was planning.
And then the room erupted. It was terrifying, like the world was exploding into color. Rooms did not naturally do that. Flowers did not just appear out of nowhere and they certainly did not do it all at once. It was too much, she could not handle it. She just wanted to go home and be back to the way things were before the fire. "Stop it!" she cried out, burying her face back into her knee. "Make them go away!"