Grant Davis

And, like, there's this marketing aspect and this class system and tribalism and all those things.

Yeah, it makes me wonder if there is this implication that within this world, within this structure, within the deeper meaning and understanding of the aliens now, like our reality exists where there aren't aliens, you know, and there aren't magical AIs that can manifest anything that it can imagine.

Yeah.

But now that you've introduced that death isn't necessarily the end, there is a beyond that.

There is a greeter at the gateway between realms.

That makes me wonder if death is a transition within the structure of these books.

And what that means for Carl tattooing...

people's dead bodies what it means when people are living on through you in in the tattoos like we saw on signet with what we see with the tour lane we see with with carl um being able to put people's skills onto him uh it just feels like it's kind of building toward um other potential and other other commentary that

As gruesome and as bleak as things seem with death being the end here, it might not be.

There might be another level to the dungeon of death.

Right.

Carl tattoos that cleaner bot blood onto his body, and now he is the portal between realms.

I don't know.

I don't know.

That's going a little bit far fetched.

But it is interesting that like these possibilities are just threaded in here.

And it could be Matt just tossing something out on a whim, or it could be that this has more substance and more of a game plan for the end game of this story.

He's laid down enough breadcrumbs.

He's laid down so many breadcrumbs that I imagine so many of these are like, woes the polar bear leading to.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.