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"There's a reason why three is bigger than one. It's because two is a number between them, such that the distance between one and three is greater than the distance between one and two."

"Why doesn't four work in the same way?"

"Because it isn't between"

"Aren't we arguing in some kind of circle? We seem to be trying to prove greater and between by assuming that they exist."

It's an odd thing to actually talk, out loud, to yourself, or yourselves in this case. It isn't the same as thinking inside your head.

This conversation is a good example of why it isn't; I suppose that I knew all of the above but I certainly would never have put it in those terms. We weren't finished.

"If we fix a point, say zero then one is less that two, which is between one and three."

"Which rather plays into our current predicament, where is our fixed point?"

This was apt. It had been something of a farce getting back to 'our place', we weren't even sure that it was 'our' place. There had been panic and angst on the journey.

I watched a couple of numbers roll away in the far distance, I suddenly felt very tired.

"Do we sleep here?"

"Only after we've eaten eel stew."

"When do we eat?"

"After we've caught something."