You should do whatever's best for you. Go - well. I wish I had a place to offer you, but I'm pretty sure I don't.
[He'll go back to the Player, no doubt, but after that? If that show is done now, he's not sure what might be happening. If it isn't, his future is even more uncertain. After what he's seen and experienced here...if it's ongoing, he won't continue with it. It's not just another show.
And even if he's got a place to land, it's not a proper story. Ben deserves a real life, with people and places.]
I'm sure anyone else here would be glad to have you, though. You could go somewhere new, where you don't have to worry about that bastard catching up with you.
[Narratively, he wonders - is Lucy's fate a mystery that would be solved, if Ben went back and finished out the story? But there's a solid chance it wouldn't be, and an even greater one that the answer would be tragic. He should do what's best for him.]
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[He'll go back to the Player, no doubt, but after that? If that show is done now, he's not sure what might be happening. If it isn't, his future is even more uncertain. After what he's seen and experienced here...if it's ongoing, he won't continue with it. It's not just another show.
And even if he's got a place to land, it's not a proper story. Ben deserves a real life, with people and places.]
I'm sure anyone else here would be glad to have you, though. You could go somewhere new, where you don't have to worry about that bastard catching up with you.
[Narratively, he wonders - is Lucy's fate a mystery that would be solved, if Ben went back and finished out the story? But there's a solid chance it wouldn't be, and an even greater one that the answer would be tragic. He should do what's best for him.]