. . .

Linus doesn’t know about the cleaning man. Not really. Not yet.

He doesn’t know who will seize Hans’ world, or just whose enemy he’s going to become.

Not yet.

All that he knows is that there is something coming — something worse than a wolf, worse than scissors, worse than Hans or the Devil himself — and that there is no reason to oppose it, no reason to bother opposing it, because there is no thing good in all of life.

There is no reason to continue.

Hans is dead; there’s a new covenant now, governing all of the world;

And Linus sits in his room, and he rocks, and cries, and he is hollowed out thereafter.

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