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"Look," he begins, "not that I expect I'd find this convincing in your position, but -" and then the ground shimmers under them and half a second after that it's not there at all.
They fall.
The ground they hit instead is cold and muddy. The stars are exceptionally bright, and close overhead.
" - what?" says Ryan.
Alex doesn't answer him. Alex is looking out into the darkness, horrified.
Yeah?
- would you do it if it had to be you? If somehow the universe were shaped differently and - would you do it?
Yeah, well.
S' how it is.
It won't even be that hard. I don't think it's the sort of thing you really fail at. Just have to - keep eating and breathing and existing while things happen. Although I guess I might theoretically die before we even finish, that's a thing that happens sometimes when you try to give birth in a preindustrial society that didn't know what germ theory was until like a week ago -
- I think I might need some more hugs.
I guess I'm gonna have to talk to Ryan or something.
I - should maybe do that when I'm less upset, possibly, I guess -
It - really seems like you and Ryan should talk first actually. I'll tell them there might be something.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna - I dunno, sit here and be sad for another day and see if tomorrow I can pull off a convincing 'hi, want to save the world?' and not - whatever I'm at now.
Kind of really want the opposite of that for now.
I guess I also kinda want food or something.
OK. Food is good.
I miss - I miss Connor and Azalea and Dennis and Zeke, and sometimes being able to help people without doing anything really horrible, and I miss my room, and I miss the batcave, and I miss Mass, and school - I think I miss homework - I miss gym class so much - and we're never going to have any of it again, ever, or - I guess you and Wishbone might make it that far again, someday, but - this is just it now. For me. This is it.
Hey, we'll get you back someday. That was on the agenda even before there was any reason to think you might be someplace awful.
Ah.
Well - good luck, I guess.
- we can baptize them beforehand, right, before - before the other thing -
It doesn't even sound like they have to die the same day? .... we shouldn't wait just because but - I don't think it'd be a hurry -
Karen thanks them and makes a valiant attempt at eating and then announces that she should maybe go to bed.
She cuddles her dog and cries herself to sleep, when she's otherwise alone.
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