"Time hasn't moved for months. If not a whole year."
Was she staring at her own face? So it seemed.
"Like I told you th' last time, yer stuck. This is only the third loop. Tomorrow you'll wake up an' everything will be normal again. Except, Reilly's still gone. Th' missin' piece is that ya can't quite figure out how."
Last time. The two words made a memory rattle inside her skull as she lay on the ground. Does this mean she's going to go look for Reilly together with Rónan and her friends again? And they'll only find Merrick, who's then going to clone himself and disappear both of his versions, again?
"What's next, then? Digging even deeper until people start identifying me by name because the police has plastered it all over everything?"
"No!... Ugh." Even talking to herself is too much. Why can't someone else do this?? "Ya have ta find where Reilly is. Yer a good person, Denny. All you gotta do is trust yerself. Trust yerself tha' Reilly ain't dead. Mourn her leavin' yer life, mourn what you an' Merrick couldn't have. And then find her. Tha' will not only be proof of him havin' taken 'er away against 'er will, but it'll also bring ya back ta reality."
"So she ain't dead?"
"No. She's jus' hidden. All ya have ta do is find 'er. Until you do, you'll be stuck living through the day you die and she gets kidnapped over and over and over again."
