hmpf

that the situation is essentially irresolvable, of course. Which, granted, is kind of par for the course in much "serious" literature. But I'm finding it particularly difficult to manage, this time. I feel like I need to end it with a conversation - in particular, with the conversation I've already started writing. At the same time, it feels wrong for that conversation to come to even just a temporary resolution. Yet there needs to be something at least resembling it enough to feel like an ending of sorts.

I'll probably end up attaching some kind of trite "last" sentence again, just to make it feel "finished" - which my beta will quickly convince me to remove again. :D