Tina, another daughter, is the strongest swimmer and understands how to work with, not against, the riptide. Laurel gives her permission to go out and save her father and sister. Jeanne pumps up on the cabin swing, flying high in the air, when the chain snaps on one side. This same daughter terrifies Duncan when he finds her methodically smashing every piece of her Royal Copenhagen china on the tiled floor of her kitchen. He is sure she is crazy.
Laurel understands that it is normal to be crazy.
Some of the images are Laurel's nightmares. One night, she hears a young elk, trapped in their metal gate in the deep snow. She doesn't come up. None of us could jump to her. And there are more.