"You're missing a part of what I just said, Cassandra." Alex smiled softly, looking at the confused expression of the woman. "I did say the lessons don't last forever.
"Regardless of how well we are guided or how careful we try to be, life is unpredictable. That's just the way it is.
"We rise, and then we fall. It's a cycle."
"..."
Cassandra stared at Alex helplessly, unable to understand how his thought process worked.
"Couldn't you have just said that from the start?" She asked but then pondered more on the words.
Alex observed quietly, throwing the fries into his mouth one at a time.
"I see…" The Catwoman finally muttered, looking out the window and at the playground. "If you had simply said it was a circle, I wouldn't have appreciated what goes into this cycle."
"Bingo." Alex nodded.
"Our entire existence is to understand ourselves, and that process is full of dangers.
"Yet when we die, we don't truly die since we return to our basic form; energy."
