"Yeah, I know. Once we find the answer." Which meant - what? More books and trudging off school grounds to hammer away at it uselessly? He found it hard to believe anything would go back to normal, most of the time. If he thought about it, he could see that - really, there were bits of normal in the way they had all been acting; it was just ten times worse. Who was to say anything would really change? Why shouldn't it be permanent? Plenty of other things had been ruined forever, and people had died.
- But he was letting himself spiral downwards, he could tell. He tried to haul himself out of it, but that was about as effective as it ever was. "That would be nice, anyway."