AUDIENCE 🚀 GREGOR

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[verminous]

Well, it wasn't me who left that mark, I'll say that much.

[lighting the cigarette and taking a long drag.]

...Ungeziefer. Vermin, in our language.

[dropoffs]

[ they hum and go silent a moment, watching him smoke.

I keep thinking the world can't get crueler, that maybe it's reached its limit.

[ for anyone, here, home, all-encompassing. ]

[verminous]

People are inventive, Io.

[there aren't limits for that.]

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I'm well-versed in being let down in this way, hah.

Call me foolishly hopeful.

[verminous]

... it's not a bad thing. Just means you still have it in you to have that hope.

[dropoffs]

Mm. To press on is all I've really known.

[verminous]

Sometimes that's all you can do.

... we're still going, though.

[dropoffs]

We are. [ a faint, tight smile. ] And I'm glad for that. For us both. These things, they make up a part of us, terrible though they are. We can use that.