until this thing is finished and it won’t be finished until one of us has all the bullets. it’s because of that scientist, the one who discovered the way to make everything go on forever is to keep all the bullets from being in the same place at once. which is why it’s beginning to dawn on us that it’s bad that the thing we are in is a shoot-out, but it’s even worse that we are in it together. to take one for the team, someone says, we have to stop being a team. someone else says, but there’s no i in team, which is true, but there’s also 