[It comes out so fast it's like he was waiting for her to ask it; he's had the answer long before the question occurred to him. He slipped into caring about this before he realized he could have opted out.
It gives him something to do when he has no purpose, no point left, the very last bit ground out of him.
Who knows? Maybe she's in the same boat, now that her reason to live is gone too. Maybe she isn't in it today but she'll join him there, in a futility that makes any destiny offered up a blessing from heaven.]
Maybe you finish whatever it is we have here and at least you can figure out what happened. [His voice gets gentle again.]
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[It comes out so fast it's like he was waiting for her to ask it; he's had the answer long before the question occurred to him. He slipped into caring about this before he realized he could have opted out.
It gives him something to do when he has no purpose, no point left, the very last bit ground out of him.
Who knows? Maybe she's in the same boat, now that her reason to live is gone too. Maybe she isn't in it today but she'll join him there, in a futility that makes any destiny offered up a blessing from heaven.]
Maybe you finish whatever it is we have here and at least you can figure out what happened. [His voice gets gentle again.]