[ Bingo. There's a pleased sort of uptick to his permanent smile, eyes flashing with excitement. ]

My last one was my masterpiece. The ultimate collaboration between auteur and author. A loop. A spiral. Life, death, the ritual of both, the summoning of a force greater than god: love, and how it guides, seeps into all of us for better or for worse--

[ He stops. Collects himself, exhales. Tries again. ]

It was about a very lonely man trying to leave a very lonely place. And it was... beautiful.