Would you help me to carry the stone?
Together we stand, divided we fall...
You know what they say about trauma survivors.
Not a question. Maybe it should be.
How they age more rapidly, and then again cease to mature at all.
How the brain maladapts, and worms grow up in it, and eat, and eat, and eat.
A blade is sharpened, bodied, with age.
A Blade that ages gains nothing at all.
At first, Malos might have been strong enough to carry out Jin's dream, which didn't yet exist, for him, all on his own.
And now? Now they can't even do it together.
So why even bother? The wall's too high.
Futile fantasy.
Once you get up there, you're just jumping off again.