There's no getting around it then, the pieces of what he's said fitting together in such a way that it's impossible to ignore. Peter, an island, kids not aging, pirates — granted, she doesn't remember Peter Pan in the Disney movie ever being cruel to the other children, but he had been pretty obnoxious, as she recalls. Maybe it was just different for Jamie. That seems to happen here often enough. Hell, it's not like she can find anything too strange about it when she's dating someone whom she's pretty sure is also a character from comic books.

"Holy shit," she says, huffing out a short laugh. "Thirty or forty years? That's a long time. I can't imagine." She would have been forty if she'd had to go back to Derry like they promised. The thought is a strange, sudden one, nearly incomprehensible, but she keeps her focus on Jamie to try to keep any surprise from showing.