but before the bat lands her father dissolves into a mist which then becomes the world with all of its fathers and mothers and doctors and social workers and open-mouthed neighbors and stupid teenage girls chasing boys all with bats and she looks on helplessly as they storm through the door and walls and up through the floor and she knows that the world means to rid itself of this monster ; for this miracle , this wonderful , beautiful miracle means nothing out there , its a mystery , an aberration that has no place there , and all she can do as they proceed is watch .