Shadowlands1993

Joy:
Jack don’t you sometimes just burst to share the joke?

Jack:
What joke ?

Joy:
Well here's your friends thinking we're unmarried and up to all sorts of wickedness, when all along we're married and up to nothing at all.

Jack:
Which friends?

Joy:
God, you can be so hard work sometimes. So what do you do here? Think great thoughts?

Jack:
Teach mainly.

Joy:
What do they do? Sit at your feet and gaze up at you in awe?

Jack:
No, not at all.

Joy:
I bet they do.

Joy:
We have some fine old battles in here, I can tell you that.

Joy:
Which you win. Must be quite a boost for you, being older and wiser than all of them. Not to mention your readers.

Jack:
What?

Joy:
Your readers and that gang of friends of yours. All very well trained not to play out of bounds.

Jack:
What are you talking about?

Joy:
Of course there’s Warnie. Not much competition there.

Jack:
That’s nonsense. And what about Christopher Riley. He never let’s me get away with anything, you know that.

Joy:
Except doubt and fear and pain and terror.

Jack:
Where did all that come from?

Joy:
I’ve only now just seen it how you’ve arranged a life for yourself where no one can touch you. Everyone that’s close to you is either younger than you, or weaker than you, or under your control.

Jack:
Why…why are you getting at me? I thought..I thought we were friends?

Joy:
I don’t know that we are friends not the way you have friends anyway. Sorry, Jack.

Jack:
I don’t understand.

Joy:
No, I think you do. You just don’t like it, nor do I.