Now, when dealing with Raven and the associated atrocious luck that goes with this sort of venture, Ace has become... resigned is not quite the right word, but it is within the ballpark. Anyway, she expects that somewhere along the line, she's going to get killed.

She's fairly sure, in the way that certain things are just obvious, that dying due to zombie attack would be a very very very bad thing, even for her. As well as being one of the least pleasant things to recover from.

This'd be why the box is now plummeting to earth faaaaaar below and a small Eurasian Jay is rocketing skyward.