[ mike's face is doing the mike's face thing, so nancy's doing the nancy face thing right back. excuse you, sass mcfrass. she's listening though, trying to sort out just how censored or abridged his version of the story is. because no, maybe she and her brother don't share all of their deepest secrets with each other, but with this? his.. future? their lives? this feels different.

the only things that stand out are "but he still brought it here" and "steve said everyone's alright". but, okay. one step at a time. ]

Mike. [ huff. okay. ] I know you're going to think I'm just being paranoid, or that I think I can control your life or something now that I'm here, but please just- Promise me you'll be careful around him. Always. Especially if you know for sure that the flayer is still stuck in his head. Because that means there's a very good chance that Billy might not even really be Billy. [ she pauses, trying to choose her words like.. super carefully ] It's not like how it as with Will last year. [ wait ] When you're from. It wasn't just using him as a spy. Does that make sense? [ please don't make her go into detail ]