"I'm from Iowa," she answers, "but I'm also from after the world sort of ends? No explosions or like in the movies. But something comes to the planet and ruins everything."

There. She's said it. Making it real like this is scary, because it's going to be so easy for Blue to decide that Regan is crazy and not worth her time, or else that whatever she's left behind at home will make its way here.

She really hopes that neither of those things is the case.