"It's not helpful." Bev protests quickly, and she wraps her arms around herself even tighter for a moment before she forces her arms to be loose at her sides. "IT is connected to Derry back home. IT's not here, they've never even heard of it." There's a firmness in her voice, because she saw how Max responded to Stan's memory, and how Annie had too. This wasn't the same thing.

"Besides, IT doesn't go after adults. IT goes after kids. No one taken was a kid." And she knows, because she knows all the kids who are here and go to the school, and she looks to Richard for a little bit of help here.