Oh, well, if it's only several centuries of torture for a few hundred people and the deaths of a couple hundred thousand still-babies-by-elf-standards orcs, and then after that maybe we can rope someone else into this to stab a different baby and stain our souls just as much anyway.

- Thank you for telling me.

She pets her dog.

"What d'you think, boy?"

I think you should ignore all of these people and their absurd problems and focus exclusively on going home.

This is probably why I am not the hero part of this team.

Very weak laugh. Yeah. Yeah, I guess.

"All right then. Let's kill a god."

Karen -

Yeah?

- would you do it if it had to be you? If somehow the universe were shaped differently and - would you do it?

- I mean, yes. 

But I'm not a kid. And nothing can hurt me once I die.

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.

Scoop.

She's just going to cry for a bit actually.

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 -

Yeah. No hurry.

Yeah. I guess.

What - what're you gonna tell people about - stuff -

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.

Do you want me to go?

Kind of really want the opposite of that for now.

I guess I also kinda want food or something.

They can bring food, yeah.

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 -

OK. That's - not OK but it's better.

Mmhmm.

I just don't want them to hurt just because - I don't want anyone to hurt.