#please watch doomcoming back and tell me lottie isn't wearing laura lee's dress that night

[nataliesscatorccio]

walking back into the room shaking my fist in the air AND ANOTHER THING but think about the trinkets lottie finds in the death dream plane, specifically laura lee's necklace! lottie wishes she had this piece of laura lee to hold on to the way shauna has jackie's heart necklace. what lottie needs in order to lay laura lee to rest is a talisman to carry with her, what the others need (through nat) is to be saved by her. jackie saves them. pit girl will save them. lottie mourns the friend she lost, nat mourns the hope for survival that died with her. when the plane took off there was a moment when they all really believed they were going to make it. and then hope burns and dies in them right alongside laura lee. the moose mirrors this bright hope to sudden loss, right down to the whole group running to see its marvel and working together in a way they rarely do (most chores seem to be solitary, drawn by card) to create a path/pull the moose free. in the end laura lee physically pushes lottie out of the death dream saving her, but we know that the spirits of the forest don't seem to give anything without taking, too. a trade for physically pulling nat down beneath the icy water, almost killing her?

have we considered yet that the white moose is laura lee? stay with me for a second. lottie and nat part ways to go on the same journey. maybe they encounter the same specter on the way, shown to each girl in the form she will be most receptive to. when nat put jackie's bones to rest the moose first revealed itself to her. what does a ghost want more than to be acknowledged, and then laid to rest? when she sees it next, it's frozen in the middle of the lake. not unreasonably far from where laura lee would have burned. nat screams and cries after the sinking moose corpse: "no! we need it!" and they do. they can make sense of jackie's vain death because ultimately it saved their lives. laura lee was trying to save them, but her death was completely in vain. it brought them no closer to survival. if they could have her back, if they could eat her to stay alive, her death might mean something too.