[ Barrymore will never last that long and the truth is that, once she's gone, Kirn won't take too much time in following after. (He suspects he'd have been gone sooner if it wasn't for her. There's not really much point in living like this, and it isn't as if the next prophet won't also come to realize that time is a pretty relative concept.) He'll close up shop and play the game the way it's meant to be, not the way that every generation of boogeymen seems to have decided to — taking their time to live in ways they hadn't when they'd still been alive. ]
We don't have to talk if you don't want to, [ comes his voice again. ] I won't say anything.
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We don't have to talk if you don't want to, [ comes his voice again. ] I won't say anything.
[ Once more: ] Just let me in.