The Grim Reaper's backing up? Really? Cam can't decide if that's reassuring or not. Doesn't he want this? But if death is just as nerve-wrecking as life, he doesn't know what he wants. His eyes are fulling open now, and he can see everything flickering, even the hand that he held Hoot in (he was holding him very tight now).

"I-- I'm sorry," he says, and his mouth even hurts. "Sorry, I didn't-- I--" His heart is pounding, his hands shaking, just like so many times before. "I'll do it right, or-- j-just, make it stop."

What'd he do wrong?