Unlike the last time he brought up BOB, this time Cooper has her full attention.

She listens in absolute silence as he speaks.

It's the first time he's talked about something like this intimately. The first time he's talked about other worlds, of spirits and entities.

Of monsters.

And when he covers what BOB does...

I'm the best thing you'll ever have inside you.



When the explanation draws to a close, at first she doesn't say anything. She just sits there and looks at him with (ironically) owl-wide eyes.

Then, without even thinking about it, she brings the cigarette she'd been fidgeting with up to her lips and takes a big, deep DRAG.

... And instantly starts coughing because oh god it's been almost two years since the last time she lit up dfgkhlsd;fg;asf.g.