"Wait. Our deaths???"
Lara and I were slack-jawed. We stared at Theo as if he were a madman. Based on what he just said, he might as well be a madman.
"You want us to kill ourselves???"
Waving his hands in front of us in an effort to placate us, Theo nervously said, "Listen to me. Have you guys never read a story like this before? Some people are trapped in a dream world and when they kill themselves, they go back to the real world?"
Lara rubbed at her forehead. "This is not a dream world, though, Theo. This is a time loop."
"Time loop might be similar," Theo argued. "It is a way to break through a world."
"It is, but we don't know where we will land for sure," I pointed out. "If we land in hell or heaven, that also counts as breaking through a world."
Theo slumped forward dispiritedly.
"I don't know then," he said.
"It is an idea, but it is not safe," I tried to comfort him. "Why don't we try another?"
"Like what?"
"Like..."
