Talk:It Lives Beneath/@comment-34138917-20181017223225/@comment-3452092-20181017231742

For Tom I would say it's a bit of PTSD. I'm not sure how that works since I don't have it and the only person I know that has it is my cousin who I don't see often, but I can definitely see the potential for Tom to have it. I can see him being haunted by "Oh, no! Oh, no! Not again!" Although this is the second time this month this has happened and so I am sure that he's heard about this, it seems plausible that Tom was haunted and we just didn't see it (we have the ability to raise his nerve before we ever see his nerve score meter). In fact, I think that's it. This town is on edge. Kyle's death is not what haunted all of them (though I'm pretty sure it did haunt Imogen, I'm not so sure about Parker). Bad things are happening and they know it. Parker has been dealing with the front lines of this and seeing nothing get done. Imogen has likely been ignoring it, so this, Kyle's death, that haunts her. But Tom and the mystery girl? I'd say Tom has been on edge for years and coming here, realizing things are not good here has made him in bad shape, but we could raise his scores, so I think he was at zero at the beginning of the book. Mystery girl. . . well, I guess it depends on who she is.

As for not losing nerve for witnessing the stabbing (can't talk on Kyle front), that happened at the very end of the chapter. It seems likely that the MC will lose nerve, but not until we see the end results of that confrontation and whether or not we can save him.