The four boys sought to rob Nick and Allie of any possessions they may still have from their time in the living world. It was five days before they reached the Welcome to Rockland County dead-spot and were subsequently attacked by four members of The Altar Boys: Johnnie-O, Purple-puss, Raggedy Andy, and an unnamed kid with a squeaky voice. Nick then leaves the Dead Forest with Allie, heading south towards their two respective homes in New Jersey and Baltimore. Despite this, he came up with the idea for road-shoes, an Everlost version of snowshoes, so that they could walk on living world roads without sinking. Nick also wanted to return home to figure out if his family survived the crash, though he did have a sense that being homeward bound only spelled trouble. –Nick on Afterlights being coins standing on their edge, Everlost, p. A way into the light at the end of the tunnel … or maybe even a path back to life. Maybe- just maybe- we can find a way out of here.

Being neither alive nor dead, the interlife in Everlost has the possibility of being either heads or tails, alive or dead. Nick proposes that Afterlights are like coins standing on their edge. While Allie spends her time in the forest figuring out the logistics of returning home and learning what she can about the physical laws and threats of Everlost, Nick contemplates the metaphysical. It was then that he met Lief, who provided a rather sparse crash course on life in Everlost and being dead in general. He woke up in the Forest beside Allie, where they both became very confused with their circumstances. On his way to the light, Nick bumped into Allie, causing them both to be thrown outside the tunnel's walls and into Everlost. He wasn't wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, resulting in him being thrown from the vehicle to his death. Nick crosses into Everlost by means of a car crash. Nick's living world friend, Ralphy Sherman, had a near-death experience and claimed that the light at the end of the tunnel was actually the light of a hospital delivery room as you were reborn into another life. While Nick described his own time in the living world as one spent following 'friends and trends' this conviction, or lack thereof, would seem to be an exception to this rule.

He had faith in faith, that one day he'd find something to strongly believe in. Nick's own beliefs regarding any sort of afterlife weren't very specific. She was involved in 'new age stuff', believing in reincarnation and crystals. His mother, who is Caucasian, differed on the spiritual spectrum. He reportedly changed his ways when he found God. Nick's father, who is Japanese, is a recovering alcoholic.

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