Tris

This just might work; the gods seem gentle, at least for now.

One of the best things I've read in quite a while. Makes me think I should have attended a class reunion a long time ago. If only!

The good @drsawzall speaks for me at this point ... or as an acquaintance of mine decades ago put it, "the mind boggles, reels, and falls."

Clearly, these boys have it Bad for each other. I'm jealous of them 😉

When I began reading this chapter, the thought suddenly occurred to me that this could be, well, exactly as it turned out to be. Finally!

Tangentally, the (medieval?) legend of the (undying) Wandering Jew came to my mind in "all this." I'm not up on my medieval legends, but I remember my father mentioning The Wandering Jew in a "once upon a time" sort of way when I was growing up. That story doesn't seem to be related to this tale - not that I know of, anyways. But fascination with not dying has entertained humans for quite sometime, cf. Tuck Everlasting, inter alia.

I am left with a heaviness of heart. Is it inexplicable? Yes, and no. With this ever resolve itself?

Good for mom! And hopefully bio-dad Anthony will prove be a bit more of a human being.

Life can be complicated, eh?

I think that maybe - just maybe - I might be making sense of this. Might be. And so, I soldier on.

??!?

This is getting wonderfully agonizing.

Zounds!

This all strikes very close to Home for me. It definitely has the Ring of Truth.

Gripping from the outset.