The Spears of Laconia

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“You can’t win.”

He ignored the voice. It had become easier with time, and like everything else about his new existence — this thing he called life after death (Re-life?)—it was about balancing acceptance with resistance, trying to hold onto the past while not neglecting the present. Because the here and now was where the danger lurked; it was also here that the answer to the future was within his grasp.

“You must know that by now. After all you’ve seen, all you’ve learned.”

There was something odd about the voice these last few weeks, a guarded hesitation that hadn’t been there when it first spoke to him in the early days. It wasn’t fear — no, he wouldn’t go that far — but it didn’t sound nearly as certain as it once had been, either.

“She understood. Why did you think she came over? She opened the door, remember?”

Yes, he remembered. Kate had opened the door, dooming them. Almost.

Whatever happened to Kate?

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