“Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.”
Closer http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer (also published in Eidolon, Winter 1992)
Fiction, Axiomatic (1995)
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