“He’s gotta disappear,” she says to the boy. Santos’s and Jess’s voices begin to tumble over each other. “Jess, don’t you dare. Jess! I’m warning you, I will fire, you have three seconds, two—” “Get him out of here, make it like he was never here, like he never found us, it’s the only way—” The crescendo of their overlap is interrupted by the boy’s screaming. He throws his hands over his ears, squeezes his eyes shut. “You’re not here!” he shouts. “You were never here! You’re not real and you never were!” And then it happens.
