![]() He doesn't think he exists anymore, except for in my dreams. He doesn't know where he goes when he's not with me. ![]() We are a breath away-and a world apart-from each other. I am as much of a ghost to him as he is to me. We discovered long ago that we can't touch, even in our dreams. The last few lines of the book reflect this: She suspects that this helps him retain some sense of himself, so that his entire life energy isn't drained away. ![]() Nikki resolves to find a way to get Jack back from the Tunnels, but in the meantime, he visits her in her dreams each night. She's no longer running from the harder parts of her life, and instead is ready to claim them as her own. But as she reflects at the end: "The pain of loss was fresh every night, but I no longer begged to have it taken away. She became a Forfeit in the first place because she couldn't handle all the pain in her life and needed it gone. ![]() More importantly, however, Nikki's internal circumstances have changed, too. ![]() This kind of puts a damper on her ability to reconnect with her family, you know? But now she's able to do that… but it's at the cost of her relationship with Jack, since he took her place in the Tunnels. In the beginning of the book, Nikki knows that she has six months until the Tunnels claim her for eternity. Jack's sacrifice meant that I had my family back, and even though our fractured relationships had a ways to go, my home life was suddenly a stronghold in my otherwise messed-up world. Within paragraphs of the book's end, we see that Nikki's life is back on track in the mortal world. ![]()
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