They were talking and gesticulating excitedly as though passing on information of some kind.
″It's you they're talking about,″ Professor Hora explained. ″They can't understand how you managed to escape.″
″Why are they all so gray in the face?″ Momo asked, still watching them.
″Because they feed on dead matter,″ the professor told her.
″They live in people's time, as you know, but time dies - literally dies - once it has been wrested away from its rightful owners.
All human beings have their own share of time, but it survives only for as long as it really belongs to them.
″So the men in gray aren't human?″ ″No. Their human appearance is only a disguise.″
″What are they, then?″ ″Strictly speaking, they're nothing.″ ″So where do they come from?″
″They exist only because people give them the opportunity to do so. Naturally, they seize that opportunity.″
Now that people are giving them a chance to rule their lives, they're naturally taking advantage of that too.″
″What would happen if they couldn't steal any more time?″
″They'd disappear into thin air, which is where they come from.″
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