"Right," he agrees, slowly. "They said..." He pauses, wanting to get it right. "No one has asked me to stop for any of my names."

It had seemed like a bit of an odd way to put it, but it makes sense, right? They must have been given a list of names of people to hold the illusion for. And never told to stop, even when one of those people disappears. Or leaves. "They suggested we were imposing that idea ourselves. Which... I understand why people worry about it, but maybe they are."