"Honestly, yeah, I got enough bullshit without magic being part of it," Ellie says. This whole town is magic or something and she could absolutely do without. It seems cool on paper and in books, but...magic can't bring back what she's lost. It just seems to make things a lot more complicated.

"I mean...I know people who've died and come back. I didn't like see it. I don't think anyone's outright seen it, but like half a dozen people had it happen a few days after we all got here. But some people don't come back. I have no fucking clue what decides it."