"...Yeah. I know. I'm always trying to say the same to you. To Atchison." Though it's much harder for him to accept. A sorry couldn't change the past. It meant acknowledging he was hurt.

He wonders if Avery Atchison ever thinks it in his mind or if all those years have scrubbed that out.

"Sometimes I wish that plan to runaway really had been possible. Sure, it wouldn't change what happened, but at the same time... Well, I'm trying to make the most of things now. I'm still here for a little while. It's something."