[She sighs softly at his agreement about Mike. Yeah. She's a decent judge of character, and she's pretty sure Eddie is too. She's trying really hard not to let herself go down the path of thinking something's wrong with her because Mike Wheeler doesn't like her. She's not the kind of person to assume everything is her fault, and she's not going to start.

Max nods slightly in agreement because Eddie's right - good people can be idiots. So Mike doesn't like her for whatever reason and thinks she's annoying? That's on him, not her. She's done wasting her time worrying about it. She can't do anything about it, so she'll just do her best to avoid him the way she's used to trying to avoid Billy.

So she shifts her focus entirely to the new topic at hand: the possibility of getting out of this place and to another place.]

I talked to Sora and Teddy. They've both done some traveling to other places. Some of them sound nice.

[She, too, has her doubts that they could find a world where kids were just safe from adults and even each other. But maybe there are worlds where there aren't actual monsters, and that would be something at least. A world without It and without demogorgons and sound eaters and asshole stepbrothers and stepfathers. At least without hers.]

Any of us who wanted to go, yeah. And Teddy. [She's nearly certain that Will won't join them because Will has a family to go back to, plus Mike, and the rest of the Party back home.]