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>Stop and take a look

You pull the car over and the two of you get out to take a look.

Somebody nailed two old pieces of wood together into a cross and stuck it into the ground. There's a messy patch of dirt and stones before it.

Etched onto the cross are the words:

Rest in peace
Roger Miller
Loving Husband and Father
1973 - ####

The second year is illegible.

It's a somber moment. Usually the ponies clean up any sign of death, but every once and a while you catch a grim reminder of your own mortality.

Is it better to be dead? Or is it better to live on in the computer, whatever you become.

You're not sure, but you need to keep going.

>To Texas

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