"What happens when I become a full shadow?"
"A new—"
"What happens to 'me' when I become a full shadow," Rudy repeatedly tapped his thumb on his chest. "Once I cease to exist."
"You become one of us."
"Everyone I know will think I died?"
"They will forget about you. You will be forgotten as though you never existed. All your records, digital or physical… they will vanish. You will fade away from the pictures. You will… cease… to exist for them."
"…"
"And then you will join us," it shortly added.
"Join you in what?"
"A resting place… I guess. There are thousands of shadows there."
"Do you know the shadow you tried to kill Janet, or the shadow who had trapped Angelica in this tunnel for eight years, or the shadow… that brought me to Rebecca so she could raise me?"
"Oh, too many questions." The shadow placed its hands on its ear and said, "I don't know the answers to that. You don't expect that the shadows get along with each other, do you?"
"…"
