..."Someone killed my mother and my father and my sister."
"Yes. Someone did."
"A man?"
"A man."
"Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question."
Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?"
"Well," said Bod. "İf I go outside in the world, the question isn't 'who will keep me safe from him?' "
"No?"
"No. İt is 'who will keep him safe from me?' "
Eddie did, finishing with the required 'They lived happily ever after', and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?"