“Why?”

And my daughter gave me three reasons, and they were the reasons of a ten-year-old, and every single one of them was structurally sound.

“The first one is that nobody had come back,” she said. “He said *unless someone comes back first.* And it had been four years and nobody had come back.

So the condition wasn’t met. I actually thought about it like that. I remember thinking, the rule is ten years or somebody comes back, and it’s four years and nobody came back, so the rule says wait.”

“Sophie—”

“You said I didn’t have to stop.”