Feb 28, 2016 01:30
"Look, Gary," Richard began. "Do you ever wonder if this is all there is?"
"What?"
Richard gestured vaguely, taking in everything. "Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?"
***
"Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn't what you wanted at all?"
***
The marquis de Carabas raised an eyebrow. "Well?" he said, irritably. "Are you coming?"
Richard stared at him for a heartbeat.
Then Richard nodded, without trusting himself to speak, and stood up. And they walked away together through the hole in the wall, back into the darkness, leaving nothing behind them; not even the doorway.
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