"Mm." Watson thinks this over. He might be a doctor, but he's a writer, too. "He has a very strong sense of stories and how they are meant to work, doesn't he? I can't fault him for that."

He keeps rubbing Johnny's back in small circles as he thinks. "The more I learn about him, the more I think it was easier when he was some unseen, ominous thing who never left the bridge."