-- You're a good child, ██████, but a child is always still only a child.

-- Your syllogisms are always just that: only syllogisms. They mean nothing in the greater concept of the world.

-- Simply because you cannot live another's life does not mean all other lives are fake. Just because you cannot actively experience one thing doesn't mean it mustn't be true. How do you know the food you eat is good before you've tasted it? You trust other senses- other ways of experiencing it, outside of being a literal consumer of it.

-- The smell, the texture, the look- they all equate to answering your question.

-- In this way you may know all other lives are lived in tandem with your own.

-- You cannot know for fact that, for example, Neil or Rue is alive? I beg to differ.

-- You meet them, get to know them; Neil is brazen, he's crass- Rue is headstrong, and kind. These attributes you make of them prove their existence, in one way or another. - You can touch them, hear them, see them- you cannot look into their eyes and see their world, but can't you learn about it from the interactions you face? Is not their opening up to you a piece of that existence they share with your own?

-- That physical divide, like the wall of a dam, is only over a physical divide.

-- You are more than what you see, and they are more than what you perceive of them. There's a reason for the tripartite self; you barely even comprehend yourself, let alone those around you. How can you be sure that you aren't the one being perceived?

-- me?

-- You.

-- No one knows they're only imagined in this scenario, right? So then, what of you? Why are you special in this regard?

-- . . .

-- I mean no offense. You are special- but only in the way everyone else is special.

-- Humans differentiate greatly but are all still human at the end of the day. There is no greater forward to that- you can only be as much as the human spirit wills itself to be- which is a lot- but no less always only what it was naturally capable.

-- It's no terrible fate to be real.

-- To be in existence, its a noble thing: you have struggled from the start, as all humans do, and came out into a cruel world. You have battled with that. You will be fine.

-- . . .

-- could i ask?

-- Hm?

-- am i real?

-- As real as anyone else.

-- who is anyone?

-- Like I said: Neil, Rue- there's Solomon, even-

-- . . .

-- . . . Even Charity.

-- All real. All existing.

-- . . .

-- What? Thinking it over?

-- sort of, in a way . . .

-- you make a point, is all, in a way i don't think you mean to.

-- Oh?

-- you forgot someone is all, just now.

-- And who might that be?

-- oh no, i can't tell you,

-- then you'd know! and you'd try to act like you were always planning to say it.

-- no, this is something i shall keep to myself.

-- call it culpability- you can blame me later for it.