[ Five has barely begun to come to terms with what he’s heard of the future. Everything here keeps him significantly distracted from obsessing over the pieces he doesn’t know, and his own actions that don’t make sense to him.

Ben manages a few words that explain why he’s always so tired. The world ends three times in a month, from his perspective, and his time here has hardly been a vacation. They’ve already nearly ended it twice. It gets to a point where he doesn’t have to wonder if it’s him: he knows it is. ]

That much hasn’t changed. [ Ben walked right into another mess that Five is desperately trying to clean up. ] …It must have been harder for you, during that. Maybe we would have had an easier time pulling the family together if you’d been in charge.