Listening to it all, her pace slows even more, until she's stopped in the middle of the path, taking in all this new information.
'I'm not dreaming, I'm trying to learn what happened to you, Gene. I only know what you tell me. And I know what I experienced when I was with you. When I first arrived, I thought it was all a mental construct, but you proved to me that didn't matter. Betty is real to me. She's a wonderful, warm, loving person who cares deeply about her son. And I saw how you treated her. I can't imagine you'll feel any differently about her even knowing what you know now.'
'I don't know how your world and the real world are intertwined, I don't know how to tell where one starts and the other ends. But they are connected. How else would Sam and myself and all the others, how else would we have found our way to you?'
'The one thing I do know is that what you feel is just as important as what you think, and if you can't know the truth, then maybe you should take your own advice and trust your gut.'
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'I'm not dreaming, I'm trying to learn what happened to you, Gene. I only know what you tell me. And I know what I experienced when I was with you. When I first arrived, I thought it was all a mental construct, but you proved to me that didn't matter. Betty is real to me. She's a wonderful, warm, loving person who cares deeply about her son. And I saw how you treated her. I can't imagine you'll feel any differently about her even knowing what you know now.'
'I don't know how your world and the real world are intertwined, I don't know how to tell where one starts and the other ends. But they are connected. How else would Sam and myself and all the others, how else would we have found our way to you?'
'The one thing I do know is that what you feel is just as important as what you think, and if you can't know the truth, then maybe you should take your own advice and trust your gut.'