Common sense being uncommon is a thing Jude's always put stock in, just watching the world grow and fuck up around him. He doesn't even practice his own across the board, making exceptions for Parker, his mother, his own escapist desires--but there is no escaping, here. Just getting out of the dark, sometimes. Just getting to the end of a day.

"Didn't they have that? There was a whole sign-in thing, when we got back. They'd been looking for Credence all over." Credence had even said something, before it all happened--that the crack in the wall was new. "I don't think you can call a thing broken just 'cause it didn't do what you wanted, one time."