Still sleeping even when people really don't need to sleep at all... I guess some habits are hard to break.
[He might have said this with more disdain, dismay, or at least disappointment a few weeks ago. The notion of spending the entire night abed, the hours whirling away with nothing but weird dreams and maybe a sore neck to show for it? Wasteful, he would have said! Now...
Well, it's not the underground, with clear limited boundaries to their lives - or, well, their existence. But it is kind of a captivity, apparently with a brief but regular danger to pass through, towards some incredible unknown final destination that might just be fading away forever after all. He... supposes... he can be the bigger skeleton, and not blame them for wanting to just take breaks from thinking about it.
But surely there are other ways?]
Maybe we have to work our ways up. Instead of real life stories... We could make stories up! Like radio shows, without the radio.
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[He might have said this with more disdain, dismay, or at least disappointment a few weeks ago. The notion of spending the entire night abed, the hours whirling away with nothing but weird dreams and maybe a sore neck to show for it? Wasteful, he would have said! Now...
Well, it's not the underground, with clear limited boundaries to their lives - or, well, their existence. But it is kind of a captivity, apparently with a brief but regular danger to pass through, towards some incredible unknown final destination that might just be fading away forever after all. He... supposes... he can be the bigger skeleton, and not blame them for wanting to just take breaks from thinking about it.
But surely there are other ways?]
Maybe we have to work our ways up. Instead of real life stories... We could make stories up! Like radio shows, without the radio.