❛ i don’t want a world without pain, or loss. i just want them to mean something. ❜
« well, the problem seems – you see – to be…wanting anything, out of the world. as for actions having meaning, well. they sure do have consequences. »
sitting in the grass, enjoying the sun on their faces — rather idyllic. Trapped in their own little prison of Royce’s making, it could be worse.
he looks over to the man sitting beside him, looks at Boxer in all of his jacketed glory, and decides that the ground is a much better host to his back. The blue sky – a blue sky that he didn’t choose, wonderfully enough – reflects in his eyes. A strange sense of peace is there, too.
could be much worse, indeed.
















