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“Nobody cares,” he told himself, neither cruelly nor kindly.

“So what do you want, then?” mused Callum. “For me to destroy myself?” “Of course not,” his other self replied. “Don’t you understand? I don’t care what you do to yourself. Nobody does. I don’t care if you live or die. Isn’t that obvious?”

‘If the five initiates were revealing themselves to be simple patterns of habit, a series of traceable behaviors observable by each of the others, then perhaps that was the purpose, the true game. Maybe it was not about whether they could be defeated by one another, but how well they could be predicted. But by whom, and for what?’