The ideas can't reconcile themselves in Leah's brain. She transforms from flesh to energy and disappears. The red SUV tears its way again across the desert sands, the moon shining down brightly enough to light the desert floor. I couldn't find him. Maybe I shouldn't go back.
Decades are 'soon'.
Of course she had to go back. That's what sisters are for. Maybe she can't help Ellie find peace and security, but at least she deserved to be told to her face why. As the tower reaches the horizon, Leah immediately knows something is wrong. The sky turns from the perfect indigo into odd and threatening shades of green and red.