NANRRATOR

(You hold them.)

(Ah.)

(You glance up, and the Director is gone.) (Makes sense.)

...The creature is still alive? Huh.

The Director changed their mind about hurting it. Weird.

He didn't... do anything?

Hello... little... one...

You're safe now.

(Oh...)

(They're yours now.)

(They're going to depend on you.) (They need you to be kept safe.)

(Huh.)

Hello... "Pluto".

I'm sorry your introduction to this world was so terrible...

But, welcome, little one. It's going to get better.

...You wanted to have more kids, didn't you?

Yeah, I do.

...

...

I'm in my late twenties.

(OH.)

How else am I supposed to say this?

We don't have any time, I'm getting closer to dying as we speak, dusk.

Okay, that's enough! This isn't real. I don't care. How can I wake up?

[You could kill them.]

For the love of...

What? What is it?

[Spare them the torture, dawn.] [They'll be erased anyway.]

You really have that little hope in us, Loop? We're not doing that.

Loop?

Don't worry about it. Dream or not, we'll protect you. We're going to get through this.

...Okay. In that case I'll pick my name.

I'll be... hm... how about "Polaris"?

You don't want to pick something to match us? We're "dusk" and "dawn".

No. I don't know you people.

Or, I guess I do? If we're all Siffrin???

Yep. That's how it goes at the start.

[Dawn, I urge you to at least reconsider.] [You've gotten this far. You know what this one's already experienced.] [It's going to get worse.]

[If you could go back and stop yourself from ever feeling any of that...] [Would you?]

(...Of course not.)

[Are you sure... you don't want to at least offer them a way out?]

(You wave your hand around as if Loop is an annoying mosquito.)

[...Okay, fine.] [It's not my place to tell you what to do.]