At least they'd known, then. That she had gone somewhere and not just ended up in the water to never be found again. In her mind, the not knowing would have been more difficult, but she was looking at it from a skewed perspective.

"That was awfully nice of them," she commented, trying to keep her tone from sounding too bitter or upset. It really was sweet that they'd taken time to remember her like that. "Lord knows how many times over the last three years I've wished I had died that day."

But then she wouldn't be there with him, and she wouldn't have been there to take Kitty's power and see the plan through. If she had died, so very many things would have been different.