Eddy's not quite sure what he was expecting when he returned Ms. G's memory, but it wasn't this. Seizures had featured in at least a dozen scenarios, so this is definitely preferable, but from the moment she'd told him he needed to remember this, his brain had gone into 'oh, fuck' mode.

Be on your guard. That thing has an end. Ice doesn't always work. They told her wrong. Had to see all of it. Can become, almost flawlessly.

The phrases repeat in his head as he tails after her down the stairs and outdoors, fighting to hold onto them. And if Pocket gives him the slightest bit of notice, guilt is written all over his face when she asks who'd given the memory back. This newest exchange is filed away best as he can while his mind turns over everything that's already been said. And shadow vines. Shadow vines??

"Uh, shit," is all he says to the other gathered students when Ms. Guzenhauser is on the move again, and he sprints after her.