Will! Charles! Funny business, they've vanished. What? They're off playing drinking games again? They had the nerve not to invite me...?! So be it, let them drink. All the years they've been company to me, the old fellows, and what have they gained? A riddling of scars and chronic pains, too pernicious for me to cure. How can I blame them, now they've so little but tipple for pastime.