"Ours was a blobby blue thing with tentacles and red eyes. My friend Palmer's Thing was a little different. As far as he can tell, it doesn't have a true form, just a twisted version of whatever it's pretending to be."

Kinner thinks for a moment, drawing on his knowledge of his world as well as Palmer's.

"I'm not sure if you did watch me die. Palmer says there wasn't someone named Kinner on his team. We had a McReady and a Norris, though. And a Copper."