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The world comes back to life, the pain instantly gone. The sudden lack of agony feels like pleasure for a moment. It overtakes me as we start our mad drive deeper into Brooklyn.
Immersed in that bizarre lack-of-agony bliss, I’m thankful yet again for this particular property of phasing out: the fact that leaving the Quiet undoes any physical damage you receive while inside. However, I now know there’s something irreparable that can happen to you in the Quiet.
Dying.
While I’m not yet sure how it works, I know Caleb was trying to kill that Pusher in the Quiet. His thoughts were clear on the matter—the Pusher was going to be erased from existence. Caleb had one-hundred-percent conviction of that.
I guess on some level I knew that death in the Quiet was a possibility, which is why I ne
