Main Campfire - Morning before classes

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Weather still too hot. Check. Cabin stinking of leeches. Check. Half naked boy. Check. Half naked boy eating. Check.

Hopefully those thunderstorms wouldn't take much longer to reach the island, but for now it was dry and Jake had taken up position at the main campfire. There was a bag from J,GOB resting on the ground between his feet. He was planning on just eating it all by himself, but if you'd ask nicely enough he might be willing to share.

Might.

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[living_endless]

"Cosmic things die too," Didi said, with some real pain thickening her voice. "The ... office doesn't die. The office is filled, and that man is my brother too, now. But the brother I've had since the first living thing started to dream is gone."

"You can ask that," she added. "I don't know, though. No one knows what happens when the universe ends. We kind of figure I metaphorically turn out the lights, lock up, and then find out. What do you think?"

[glacial_queen]

"I think," Karla said quietly, "that I don't know enough about my own world to hazard an answer to that question, never mind yours. But, of the very little I do know, I know that I'm sorry for your loss."

Whatever Karla privately thought of death--and much of what she'd thought was highly uncomplimentary at times--she couldn't deny that Didi was Death with compassion. Which meant that losing her brother was probably all the harder for her.

[living_endless]

"Thanks," Didi said softly. Then, before she could let herself sink further into her grief: "We'll talk more tomorrow, okay?"

[glacial_queen]

Karla nodded. "Sounds good. I'm looking forward to it," she said, giving Didi a tentative smile.