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[usedtoit]

Maybe this is weird to talk about with all the murder and mayhem going on and with new people arriving yesterday but.

I don't know.

Is it okay to miss people that aren't here anymore? Not like, in general, but specifically here at the hotel. When people aren't here anymore, that probably means they're back home, right? So I should be happy when my friends aren't here anymore. But some of my friends are gone and I miss them. I want them back. I feel like that's selfish. I shouldn't want that.

I guess the other alternative is that the hotel has taken them to do something with them, and that thought doesn't make me feel any better.

Comments

[villainously]

I think it's normal to miss those you can't see.
when you know they're in a better place, it's not as sharp a feeling.

( he's not sure people have ever actually escaped this place. there's no proof of it, that the people that have disappeared have really gone home. it's just easier to think that way... or, it would be. if he could manage to think that way. )

[usedtoit]

Do you think they're in a better place? You're right, it feels better to think that they are. That they've gone home or whatever. But that seems unlikely.

[ And now that she's thought about it, she can't stop thinking about it. ]

[villainously]

in one instance, if he's not somewhere better, he's not anywhere.

( that doesn't necessarily make it easier to believe Neal is safe somewhere, though. )

[usedtoit]

I don't know if that makes me feel better.

[villainously]

doesn't make me feel much better, either.

[unbreachable]

I think it's okay.

[usedtoit]

My brother used to be here, but he's gone now. Do you have anyone you miss?

[unbreachable]

Yeah. There's one or two.

[ like his brother's lookalike. He still wonders if that was some kind of dream. ]

[usedtoit]

I'm sorry. It's probably better this way. With all the bad things that happen here.

[unbreachable]

Yeah. Kind of what I was thinking. Maybe..better they go home.

[ if that's actually where they go. ]

[unforgives]

I think it's okay to miss them and to feel like that.

Are a lot of people you know missing?

[usedtoit]

There's a few. Jack and Sam are gone. My brother was here, but he's gone now too.

I don't think they found a way out. If my brother found a way out, he would've taken me with him. He wouldn't have left me here.