//Yer sayin' this to a bloke who came to terms with the fact that he wasn't going to be here forever a long while ago,// Jono pointed out. //Yer don't know when it ends, I don't know when it ends. I believe that's what's commonly known as 'living.'//

He attempted a smile. One of those corners-of-the-eyes ones. It was, so far as Jonothon's smiles went, a full and sincere one.

//Yer get a day or a year or a lifetime, same as the rest of us.//