Five people have played a game of rock, scissors, and paper. Only one person has won, and that person is going to die soon. Everyone is dying, and only one person is winning. The only thing that can stop them from winning is to watch them die silently while everyone else is dying. This is a cruel game, he says, but he has a 50/50 chance of winning. If he looks back at the battles before, he thinks, he'll see that there were only 50 percent despair of living, or 50 percent hope. He's in the 50 percent for hope too, and he hopes everyone will clap for him. He wants to know if they're all thinking the same thing. If they are, he asks, what basis would he use to decide the outcome of the game? If he were reading their minds, he would use the same reasoning to make the final decision. He decides to freeze the game so that he can freeze the thoughts of the other players, and then he can announce the outcome to them. The other players cheer, believing that they'll win. The girl who played the game says, "ah shine float" , and the others believe that they can do the same. They'll just have to wait until they win.