"Jason Carver happened to Lucas. He's also partially responsible for what happened to you. Broke your headphones apparently."

So Max never got the music to get her out either. Which was maddening at the very best. Because there were so many things that meant they had failed Max, but no one had expected it to be Jason to fuck it up so badly for them.

"Hawkins is... not good. We tried. Apparently we failed. Vecna has to still be standing, and since you died for a few seconds, the gates tore open. Nothing crossed over, but Hawkins is sort of in ruins. They're playing it off as an earthquake, and of course Eddie is being blamed."

Which is such bullshit. Everything went wrong and she hates it so much. They tried so hard, and they hadn't had enough people to carry it all. Part of her wonders if she's the only one who blames herself, or if Steve does too. When Hopper 'died' and Joyce left, Steve was basically rendered defacto adult and there just hadn't been enough resources.

"Billy... didn't take it well. Knowing there was so much he didn't know. I couldn't tell him everything. It was so much at once. Chrissy wanted to know it all, know it immediately, but Billy's life was destroyed by it in so many different ways that it just overwhelmed him."