“I will erase you from the Genepool.”

“I sense a familiar presence. . .”

“Zoey? That name sounds familiar. . .”

“I never knew my mother. . . According to my father, I was a very large child. I killed her during child birth. Ever since then I’ve been GRINDING away to get a more streamlined physique.”

“Unfortunately.”

“That I am aware. But where are YOURS?! I don’t SEE THEM!”

“You make your own friends? That’s kind of. . . Sad.” He doesn’t know whether to PITY her or not. “Only partially. Jinx is still around. Somewhere. But as for the others. . . They’re in a better place.”

“I miss my wife.”

“Perhaps but, experiences like these give one wisdom you’ll learn when you’re old- Oh, yeah. Forget I said that.”

“. . . Sure thing Gran- kid.” He’s just going to nod along but feeling a little peckish, Shen checked his pockets for a cheese burger. Shit. He’s all out. Damn. “Say, Zoey, could you. . . Do me a favour?”

“. . . Can I haz sandwich?”

Sigh. Hungry. . .

“Back in the saddle- seat- . . .”

“Jinx? Zoey? . . . Lee?”

“Sandwich flavour?”

“Have you never eaten a sandwich?”

“A moon. . . In a sandwich?”

“Have you heard the legend of Big Dick Randy?”

“Still water usually hides an endless abyss like those who travel through time, stuck in a prison of their own making. Again. And again. . .”

“Mariah Carey has breached containment!”