Oh— god. [ there's a lengthy silence before peter continues because of all the responses he was expecting that wasn't it.

there are answers to that question — one, that memories aren't infallible and boy does he know that well; two, everything that he'd learnt as a result of his conversation with solis. but that doesn't mean those are answers he should give. ]

—I'm sorry. [ another pause, still lengthy but less so than the first one. ] We might be dead, I'm not saying it's not an option. I remember dying, too. [ and not for the first time, technically speaking. ] Everyone here does. But what I mean is that it might not be the afterlife. I had a conversation with Doc Solis — she's from the planet originally. Hell, even if you agree with Kimiko and the Wild Hunt, the consensus is that this isn't it — we can still die. Again and again, we can die here, and we can die here permanently — or at least, enough not to come back here. And our actions here, what we do or fail to do here, it affects the rest of this universe at the very least.

I'm not a philosopher, but I think there's a difference, you know?