His words seemed to bound around her head, a kind man offered to take her place as she limped home. She found the locket but paid little attention to it. She took some time to bandage the wounds on her back, pain was ebbing away slowly with her growing numbness. Em hadn't slept the night before, her body left her as she lied down in the bed. That last thing she caught a glint of was the locket on the dresser.