Something else takes control.

It isn't the something that gave Maddie that desperate, feral hunger, it is something else. Something that knows what it will take to survive this -- to actually survive it. That she cannot stay in this life.
That she must run, run, run to the next one.

She's already lost.

Caria has already won.

She cannot stay here.

She will have to try and find him again. Next time.

In the next cycle.