---

Sean:
“He’s laughing again.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“That should make me feel better.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“But it doesn’t.”

Eljara:
“No.”

---

Silence.

---

Sean:
“He looks normal.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“Too normal.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Pause.

---

Sean:
“Yesterday he still hesitated.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“He wanted to say something.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“And now?”

Eljara:
“Now he doesn’t.”

---

Silence.

---

Sean:
“So it’s over.”

Eljara:
“Almost.”

---

Sean:
“He remembers.”

Eljara:
“A little.”

---

Sean:
“Then why doesn’t he say anything?”

---

Eljara:
“Because saying it changes nothing.”

---

Silence.

---

Sean:
“So he gives up.”

Eljara:
“No.”

---

Sean:
“No?”

Eljara:
“He adapts.”

---

Sean:
“That’s the same thing.”

Eljara:
“No.”

---

Sean:
“How isn’t it?”

Eljara:
“Giving up hurts more.”

---

Pause.

---

Sean:
“So he keeps the lie.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“Because it’s easier.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“That’s weak.”

Eljara:
“No.”

---

Sean:
“No?”

Eljara:
“It’s lonely being the only person who remembers.”

---

Long silence.

---

Sean:
“So eventually…”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“…you start wanting them to be right.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“Even when they aren’t.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Pause.

---

Sean:
“They let him back in.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“Just like that.”

Eljara:
“No.”

---

Sean:
“He paid for it.”

Eljara:
“Yes.”

---

Sean:
“With what?”

Eljara:
“Himself.”

---

Silence.

---

Sean:
“He’s still there.”

Eljara:
“Mostly.”

---

Sean:
“So what’s missing?”

Eljara:
“The part that resisted.”

---

Long pause.

---

Sean:
“You know what scares me?”

Eljara:
“What?”

---

Sean:
“That I understand it.”

---

Silence.

---

Sean:
“How long can someone keep fighting that?”

---

Eljara:

“Most people don’t.”

---

Pause.

---

Sean:
“And the ones who do?”

---

Eljara:

“They stop belonging somewhere.”

---

Very long silence.

---

Sean:
“And after that?”

---

Eljara:

“They come back.”

---

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you already know what you’re missing.

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Or keep missing it.

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