Things he could only rightly explain away were this world a work of familiar fiction. His thoughts had been swayed at first by his impression of the h...roic looking man. However he increasingly became sure in his conviction. Though perhaps only in the way that any lost man desperately grasps at direction.“The world is an anime. Why? Why is the world an anime?!” As though the weight of so many thoughts was finally too much Daichi’s head dropped into his hands.‘None of this makes sense. Why am I. It is not usually difficult. On that occasion, though, I was caught and held by the gaze of Ethel Hardy. Subsequently, I was aware that she was watching me rather more intently than usual. Ethel was what we often refer to as a 'Pillar of the Church'. In her late eighties, though looking much younger, she was tall and slim, with once blonde, now uniformly silver, short hair. She was a leading member of the Mothers' Union, on the PCC (The Parochial Church Council), had been Church Warden for many. ”She sipped her coffee while telling me that since that time, she had sex with various guys when traveling with her parents.“I wished I knew what they put into that cocktail they shot into the boys when making child porn. The guys I was with didn’t last long,” she said.There are some she found on the base who are discreet and don’t mind making sure a girl she gets hers before the main event. It was nice to have a guy get her off instead of it being her fingers or roommate.“I know it is crazy as. Walking it to it was unlikely to take me more than an hour and a half, and I doubted that the route itself would require more than three. If I got to the base of the route by noon, I should still be able to finish in daylight, although I’d be descending in the dark. Maybe I should have been more motivated, after all I’d had enough unpleasant surprises on this hill not to take it for granted, but I was warm and prone and that’s a hard obstacle to overcome when everything you know is saying ‘easy.