after dark
Takahashi smiles and looks at Mari. "Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm seven years old and an orphan again. All alone, with no adults around to take care of me. It's evening, and the light is fading, and night is pressing in. It's always the same. In the dream I always go back to being seven years old. Software like that you can't exchange once it's contaminated."
Mari keeps silent.
"I try not to think about this stuff most of the time," Takahashi says. "It doesn't do any good to dwell on it. You just have to live one day at a time."
"Walk a lot; drink your water slowly."
"That's not it," he says. "Walk slowly; drink lots of water."
"One's as good as the other, I'd say."
Mari keeps silent.
"I try not to think about this stuff most of the time," Takahashi says. "It doesn't do any good to dwell on it. You just have to live one day at a time."
"Walk a lot; drink your water slowly."
"That's not it," he says. "Walk slowly; drink lots of water."
"One's as good as the other, I'd say."