The conclusion is Taylor in a coma, trapped in her own head, with no voluntary control over her body. This is what Contessa meant when she said that Taylor would decide whether she found peace or didn't.

It's why Tattletale said she'd look after Taylor, and why she wanted to drive the point home for relative strangers who were there as guests. It's why Alec was there, and why her dad was alive, when he had every reason to be dead.

Brain surgery with a bullet isn't really possible, come on. The real ending is that Taylor is effectively dead but not dead, and has to live with the consequences of her decisions, in a pseudo-afterlife. This ties into the themes of the story. Powerlessness and consequences.

Intending to make this clearer in the rewrite. Floored me that it didn't come across for most. © Тролльбоу

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