[ Nash is religious but not very faithful— and he doesn't really know what Prior believes, or what his people do. But he likes myths, so he listens to this one.

He doesn't realize until the end that there's a sharpness to it. ]

Everything with a beginning has an ending. [ They're vague words, but he's repeated them sometimes at night, when no one was there to hear them. He's never found comfort in certainty. ] I'm sure this does too, but I don't know how to get out of it. Usually…

[ Usually he'd disrupt the source of the spell. But this magic doesn't have a source that he can see, and he's the thing that doesn't fit. ]

Is there anything here, besides me, that doesn't match?