"Why is it that whenever we talk, we'd end up miles away from where we are—tackling dangerous seas, climbing impossible peaks, escaping locked rooms—only to go back to where we started, having tackled nothing at all?"
I smiled. "That's the beauty of communication, don't you think?"
"To you, to me, to us—what difference does it make?"
"Everything."
"Would it ever be the same again?"
"Without you? No."
"What will we do now?"
"We? You should be thinking of what *you'll* have to do. This is not my problem anymore."
"Isn't it? How can you say that when you're the one who brought me here in the first place?"
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