[Aly sighs, blinking back tears, her voice thick with emotion, and hating it.]

I have to bring him home. I just have to...the spirit. She'll know what to do. She can fix it. She's done it before. For him, and for me. If I take him back, they can't follow us there. She'll fix it. She has to.

[She rubs at the thin scar on her neck - the one that goes all the way around it. It's not a scar from a wound someone should have survived. Maybe she hadn't.]