[ At his apologies, Jesse merely tightens her hold on him. She knows there's little point in telling him there is no need to apologize. This story is a monster and that isn't his fault. The Dark Presence has taken him so many times that it's impossible to say when "Return" happened. However, she knows it isn't written by Alan. The things in that manuscript are too cruel.

What should she say? She isn't sure. He had wanted to tell her something before she silenced him. Something about how he had kept the story going in loops. How much of that was him, and how much was because of them? They tried to force the story to give them what they wanted. Maybe that was never possible. Maybe they dragged all of this out so far because of they demanded something unrealistic of the story.

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I've been trying to reach you... notes, projecting Polaris. Messages in any way I could. I never reached you until now.