Quoting Malort in Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, St. Martin's Press, Ch. Day 1, p. 69, 2024

Not only was that not an option for a man like Malort—or just Malort, since he thought he might be the only man exactly like him—but he strongly suspected the pair weren’t going to make it to their destination one way or the other.

— Malort in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, St. Martin’s Press, Ch. Day 1, p. 69, 2024

Emphasis mine.

1:33pm on October 27, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.


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