"It depends," Beverly says, shrugging. "Sometimes I just wander around. Or go out to the boardwalk, it's really nice out by the beach at night." It's cooler, less crowded, which makes it seem kind of beautiful in a way it usually doesn't in the daytime. Mostly, though, she just likes being able to get out, partly because it's reassuring to know that she's able to. Where she goes is less important than that she does. "We could go out that way? Or just see where we wind up."

She's not really used to having company at times like this, but it's kind of nice, too. Before last summer, back home, she wasn't used to having friends at all. That's just one more way in which Darrow is nothing like Derry, which she definitely thinks is a good thing.