( He's never explained any of it, not like this. Hearing out loud only makes it worse, makes it sound more futile. But, in a way, it's also freeing.

It could be that all the alcohol has considerably loosened his lips. )

Most endings, the ones he wrote toward in all of his worlds, were the brothers killing each other. But, they always died. The latest ending they refused involved killing our son. We -- three raise him. He's a longer story. It's possible, everything in this story will segue into a longer story. ...God -- Chuck, as he preferred to be called, didn't like that. He killed Jack himself, and then brought night on and released hundreds of souls from Hell. Souls, these brothers had put down. His... "endgame," as it were.