[That's another laugh. Like everything else about them, it's wholly insincere, but their amusement counts for something, surely.]
[It counts about as much as a lie.]
Unfortunately. [It seems nothing here has.] It seems we've paid each other in lies.
[Dozens of times over. Maybe hundreds. Some versions of them keep careful count. Step by step. Nine hundred, and onward, and onward, and on. Some don't. Some just never mastered the ability to count that high. Ha ha.]
no subject
[It counts about as much as a lie.]
Unfortunately. [It seems nothing here has.] It seems we've paid each other in lies.
[Dozens of times over. Maybe hundreds. Some versions of them keep careful count. Step by step. Nine hundred, and onward, and onward, and on. Some don't. Some just never mastered the ability to count that high. Ha ha.]
[So. What are you doing here, kid?]
As for me?
Call it a break from it all.