"Sometimes, I wish you were a girl." "What?" Eddie turned to him, he could feel his movement. Everything seemed a lot easier to feel, he was aware of his surroundings. "I think it would make things a lot easier. You, a lot easier." ---- Max and Eddie were saved. The town is cleaning itself up from shambles. People are moving on. Things are going back to normal... What the hell is normal in Hawkins? How do you go back to normal after seeing people die right in front of you? After seeing them tortured.? What is normal about the loneliness? The trauma? The nightmares? What is normal about anything in life after near death? What is normal? No one ever is normal.