The endgame approach. The session where the accumulation of the game's demands is at its heaviest and the finish line is visible enough to make the distance between here and there feel impossible rather than manageable. Just one more is the mantra of every long project at its breaking point — the promise that the current cost is the last cost, that after this particular thing the asking will stop.

Someone is saying this to Sam. It might be Lou. It might be Fragile. It might be the echo of every person who depended on a delivery being made and trusted him to make it. Don't give up is the instruction and also the record of every previous time he didn't, the proof that the instruction has worked before and can work again.