He supposed that was true. From what he'd heard, even dying couldn't keep them down. "I know," he replied. "It still sucks that everyone knows more about what happens than I do, but it's difficult to believe it when I haven't seen it myself."

The thought of having his mother back... ah, there was something that he'd dreamed about for so long. But it wasn't something that would happen. It couldn't. "It's tempting," he admitted. "But she doesn't remember me, she remembers the person this place wants me to be. I got over thinking she'd come back a long time ago."