Chapter 18Time became a weird, viscous thing, slowing and speeding up at the oddest intervals. Flanna remembered waking up when the ambulance arrived, and she remembered hearing Jason answer their hurried questions as she was bundled safely into the back of the vehicle. She felt him at her side for the duration of the jostling trip, but beyond that, things became a little shaky. There were doctors and the smell of disinfectant and something warm on her head. She was pretty sure someone said something about a concussion at one point, though the fact that she could’ve sworn she heard someone else talking about party hats at the same time led her to doubt the veracity of that memory.
The first time she opened her eyes and was sure that it was the real world and not a dream, the morning sun w
