"Sounds stupid out loud, doesn't it?" Kaya said. "Me, someone you never met, being able to stop you from doing something you were doing back in your world. If anything, being friends with Howard demonstrated something important: if I forget that our worlds make us what we are and have a way of staying there, I'll not know who I am."

She sighed. "I forgot you both lived through the FAYZ. I forgot that sometimes, situations get so bad that the luck you have is what you force out of nowhere, and you can only hope its in your favor. I was lucky to have a group of friends in my world who made it a mission to make things right. But sometimes, life is much worse than even I could conceive it to be."

Her shoulders slumped. "I...I try to save everyone, or at least help them if I can. And the dumb thing is, even if I do, somehow these people are taken away, by podding or by death. So as you can see, who am I to tell someone how they should live their life?"