[Wirt won’t be alone in that. Hunger leads to desperation—and Cami doesn’t want to think of what follows after that, for either of them.]
Right. [Although Cami doesn’t want to point out the other part of that precedent to him, that whatever follows has typically been worse, some sort of escalation of the circumstances already in place. Mounting paranoia, worsening hallucinations, and perhaps in this Wonderland might seek to make all the ghouls suffer through a hunger that drives them insane. She can’t put that on Wirt’s shoulders; Cami outright refuses, which is why she forces a smile and a sense of hope she doesn’t truly feel when she turns back to him.]
It wouldn’t. Whoever or whatever’s in charge here, it’s made it clear that it wants to keep us alive. [Why else bring them to a place where they don’t age or suffer a lasting death?] We just have to get through the next few days. We’ll be fine, Wirt.
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Right. [Although Cami doesn’t want to point out the other part of that precedent to him, that whatever follows has typically been worse, some sort of escalation of the circumstances already in place. Mounting paranoia, worsening hallucinations, and perhaps in this Wonderland might seek to make all the ghouls suffer through a hunger that drives them insane. She can’t put that on Wirt’s shoulders; Cami outright refuses, which is why she forces a smile and a sense of hope she doesn’t truly feel when she turns back to him.]
It wouldn’t. Whoever or whatever’s in charge here, it’s made it clear that it wants to keep us alive. [Why else bring them to a place where they don’t age or suffer a lasting death?] We just have to get through the next few days. We’ll be fine, Wirt.
[Somehow.]