[ he can't deny that. He doesn't understand how any of this stuff works; he shouldn't be trying to apply the logic of the world as he knows it to something as inexplicable as what's happened to them. For a moment, though, it was nice to imagine he'd found something he could be sure of. ]
Well, anyway... What's the world like in 2004? Are people flying to work?
[ not long ago, he wouldn't have cared at all about the future. Now... well, he still doesn't care that much, but it no longer feels like something irrelevant to him. Imagining the next year doesn't fill him with dread anymore. Johnny has a future, with the corpse in his sights; he can't help being a little curious about the world ahead. ]
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... Yeah... I guess that's right.
[ he can't deny that. He doesn't understand how any of this stuff works; he shouldn't be trying to apply the logic of the world as he knows it to something as inexplicable as what's happened to them. For a moment, though, it was nice to imagine he'd found something he could be sure of. ]
Well, anyway... What's the world like in 2004? Are people flying to work?
[ not long ago, he wouldn't have cared at all about the future. Now... well, he still doesn't care that much, but it no longer feels like something irrelevant to him. Imagining the next year doesn't fill him with dread anymore. Johnny has a future, with the corpse in his sights; he can't help being a little curious about the world ahead. ]