"I'm in," Elena said. "Whatever they need. It's not ... right. We change it. That's the point of being here, isn't it? We change things and ..."

She was being illogical, and emotional, and she should probably try to be calm and rational about this. But she didn't want to.

"Zack doesn't deserve that," she said. "And neither does she. And she's here and ... I don't want it to happen again. I don't think I care about anything else. I can't sit back and watch, this time."