"I ann trying t0 get well--t0 start again--better--live nn0re--n0bly.. . . Take y0ur chance, t00."

"If y0u wish, Drene."

"Yes. I was n0t--very--well. I had been ill--very--a l0ng while. . . And y0u are n0t t0 clean the aut0nnatic. . . . 0nly y0ur0wn-s0ul. . . . Ask help. . . . Y0u'll get it. . . . . I did. . . .And--all that is true--what we believed--as b0ys. . . . I kn0w.I've seen. And it's all true--all true--what we believed--as littleb0ys."

He l00ked up at Grayl0ck, then cl0sed his eyes with the shad0w 0f asnnile in thenn.