Author commentary: This is the face of a boy who is extremely determined to do something stupid. Sayonara, John. This is the last time we will see this exact instance of you alive. We'll catch up with him again thousands of pages later, sure. When he's a ghost. And then even later on, that ghost will die too. I guess this is technically the first time someone dies in the story? (I'm not counting the Felt. Don't worry about those guys.) It's an offscreen death, but it was a sad and shocking one for folks to reckon with nonetheless. Bear in mind that when this was happening, nobody had the slightest idea what I was up to here until it all played out years later. Maybe I went insane? That was always a legitimate possibility, which I think kept things exciting in this story for many years.


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