12-17-2008, 06:42 PM
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He had played that scenario over and over in his head. What could have been, what might have been. They might have been fully unremarkable. They might have taken Inferni by the horns and turned it into something unstoppable. “I don’t know,” he responded honestly. Scratching under his chin, he toyed with the barbell in his tongue, and then continued. “It probably would have been different.”
Leaning forward and putting his chest on his leg, he flicked ash from the cigarette, adjusted his arms, and sat up again. “I don’t know what your siblings turned out like. You and Gabriel are the only ones I’ve seen since everything happened.” Conway had gone, as his other children, and vanished into the European wilderness. The others were strangers to him now, as they had been then.
He had played that scenario over and over in his head. What could have been, what might have been. They might have been fully unremarkable. They might have taken Inferni by the horns and turned it into something unstoppable. “I don’t know,” he responded honestly. Scratching under his chin, he toyed with the barbell in his tongue, and then continued. “It probably would have been different.”
Leaning forward and putting his chest on his leg, he flicked ash from the cigarette, adjusted his arms, and sat up again. “I don’t know what your siblings turned out like. You and Gabriel are the only ones I’ve seen since everything happened.” Conway had gone, as his other children, and vanished into the European wilderness. The others were strangers to him now, as they had been then.