The laugh is like icewater down Howard's back. He feels every skin cell writhing to get away from Grey. At Grey's next step forward, Howard bolts.

He's a fast kid, and agile. He darts around a teacup and sprints around the fence at the edge, trying to figure out how to get past Grey and back to Frontierland, where he hopes Wyatt or the traps around Thunder Mountain might protect him. He trips over an exposed cable from one of the rides and scrambles back up, even as blood begins to soak his pant legs at the knees, and looks over his shoulder to see if Grey's following.