[She half wishes she were religious right now. Having a higher power to appeal to would be useful while reality is crumbling before her eyes.]
Fagin does get sent to the gallows. If that helps.
[Is she seriously giving credence to this? This is absurd. Even worse than fucking zombies, or time travel, because now the rules really are all broken.
And where does that leave this weird girl? Out of place, out of time, off the page and nowhere to go? Fukawa's gut twists.]
Yes. You're dead.
[There is a slight delay.]
But that Bill guy is too. The police chase him down, and so does a mob. He dies trying to escape them.
All the wrong-doers meet terrible ends. It's a morality tale after all.
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Fagin does get sent to the gallows. If that helps.
[Is she seriously giving credence to this? This is absurd. Even worse than fucking zombies, or time travel, because now the rules really are all broken.
And where does that leave this weird girl? Out of place, out of time, off the page and nowhere to go? Fukawa's gut twists.]
Yes. You're dead.
[There is a slight delay.]
But that Bill guy is too. The police chase him down, and so does a mob. He dies trying to escape them.
All the wrong-doers meet terrible ends. It's a morality tale after all.
Though I always thought it was a cruel one.