He could probably answer a few things about the minutiae of this trial, too many things now that they've all clustered together to become what it turned into, the minutes and seconds of the execution and exactly what Red had done or didn't do. Exactly what they'd all done and didn't do, today. Tomorrow, the day after, the next day: he knows they're there, but he doesn't have the leisure to figure out how to get to them.
The easy answer is that you don't get back up after -- you crawl. You face the ground and get dirt under your fingernails and you pull yourself hand over hand and inch by inch like a snake, or an earthworm. Survival is never pretty, but this is the ugliest it's been in a while.]
We do what we can to keep each other alive. [that's what he finally has] ... You should have a sandwich.
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[He doesn't know quite how to answer.
He could probably answer a few things about the minutiae of this trial, too many things now that they've all clustered together to become what it turned into, the minutes and seconds of the execution and exactly what Red had done or didn't do. Exactly what they'd all done and didn't do, today. Tomorrow, the day after, the next day: he knows they're there, but he doesn't have the leisure to figure out how to get to them.
The easy answer is that you don't get back up after -- you crawl. You face the ground and get dirt under your fingernails and you pull yourself hand over hand and inch by inch like a snake, or an earthworm. Survival is never pretty, but this is the ugliest it's been in a while.]
We do what we can to keep each other alive. [that's what he finally has] ... You should have a sandwich.