miwi making a promise that when they grow up they'd leave hawkins together so neither one has to look ridiculous running behind the other's train begging for forgiveness like the silly romance movies their moms used to watch.
mike, age 12, running behind will's hearse as it takes will away from him. taking everything he knows and everything he loves in a little black case, and he can only stand and watch as will's body is driven towards the yellow sun setting in the west, heartless in the way it refuses to tell the blue sky if they will ever meet again as it slowly sinks into the ground.







