Connie just stands there for a solid two minutes, staring up at the twinkling night sky.
What was she supposed to say to that? That one of her best friends was a god- no, a capital-G God on his own world? That he watched his entirely reality crumbling to meaningless drivel before his eyes and couldn't even talk to his friends about it?
...
"I think the scariest thing is that... the exact same thing was happening to my world. And I didn't even notice. I was so caught up in trying to be a regular teenager again that I forgot what it felt like to mean something.
"What would've even happened if it kept going like that?
"Would... would someone just have. Forgotten us? Somewhere out there, some invisible trickster slowly letting us slip from its mind until we're... I don't even know what the word would be. Dissolved?
"I can't imagine how horrible it felt to know and see all that while it was happening, not just after the fact."
congratulations dirk you have a convert
What was she supposed to say to that? That one of her best friends was a god- no, a capital-G God on his own world? That he watched his entirely reality crumbling to meaningless drivel before his eyes and couldn't even talk to his friends about it?
...
"I think the scariest thing is that... the exact same thing was happening to my world. And I didn't even notice. I was so caught up in trying to be a regular teenager again that I forgot what it felt like to mean something.
"What would've even happened if it kept going like that?
"Would... would someone just have. Forgotten us? Somewhere out there, some invisible trickster slowly letting us slip from its mind until we're... I don't even know what the word would be. Dissolved?
"I can't imagine how horrible it felt to know and see all that while it was happening, not just after the fact."