[ ‘Our God.’ Doubt flickers across his face, just briefly. He understands why cruelty is sometimes attributed to God and that leaks into the imagination. A false god that’s only the creation of some human’s mind. It doesn’t change that Mika believes in his existence.

It doesn’t change the ways Mika has suffered. Every cruel stain on his life. ]

Did you mean to hurt people? Did you want to? Did you ever… have a choice…?

[ Mika got turned; he never mentioned wanting it. When was this - the two years he didn’t speak to anyone? How young had he been? ]

I’m not him. You know what he would say and do, and I don’t - but… you’re doing right by one person now. I hope when you see him again, he tells you that you’ve done right by him all along.

[ He wishes, fervently, that Mika will have a happy ending. ]

I hope you are - that you will be the most important person in the world to him.