It's like a children's game. We're learning to share and love one another, isn't it sweet? Except for the part where people are bleeding from the eyes but [He lets a shrug run shoulder to shoulder, tipping back a little on his log as he watches Byerly work] sacrifices have to be made. Well. I couldn't love anywhere with this humidity.

[He links his hands behind his neck.]

And it makes me feel like a heel, all of this. Low as the snakes we're no doubt surrounded by.