[That's what coping is for, really. You don't think of it as coping, you just think of it as the way to move forward no matter what -- something to keep you going despite everything else going on around you. Security and an existing path in the woods.]

I guess it wouldn't.

[It's thoughtful, because he, too, hears a lot about the end of the world and saving the world and all that jazz (and is one of those stories of peril himself, come to think of it), but it's the idea of something just being a sport that's interesting to him.]

But there would be... worldwide competitions? For something like this.

[That's how these things usually worked, right?]