Scene Twenty Three

DROMEY

He started to see me as his enemy, like an arch-nemesis or something. I could never maintain a dialogue for longer than five minutes. He'd just freak.

GASGAR

What do you think happened to him?

DROMEY

I don't have any idea. Maybe he's dead.

GASGAR

Why did you go there?

DROMEY

To look for the end of the world.

GASGAR

What do you mean?

Dromey sighs.

DROMEY

Gasgar, I can't explain things to you. You never understand, and then you get frustrated, and say things.

GASGAR

Like what? What do I say?

DROMEY

Shit. You say shit.

Gasgar sits back. Dromey stands up.

DROMEY (CONT'D)

If you weren't there, I can't explain. It's a thing the soul goes through, a burning. Everyone in it knows. But no outsider can understand.

GASGAR

That's what I am. An outsider.

DROMEY

No. You're burning with me.

GASGAR

Now. But they were so much larger, more real. That's what it is. I'm not as real.

DROMEY

When I taste you, you taste real. But you shouldn't be jealous. They're all gone.

GASGAR

Burned away?

DROMEY

Vapors. Around us. In me. Can you tell?

GASGAR

I don't smell anything.