Finally, this moment, in which he realizes Billy had led them to the falls and the Hawthorne Institute even though he’d been warned the day before that no one should be here. Now they’re in trouble. Well, Billy is. Ethan will be, too, if he doesn’t run. He takes a halting backward step as the full weight of that hits him. He could get in trouble. For something he didn’t even want to do. For something that, in all honesty, is Billy’s fault.

