You can find a solution if you use a little imagination. The author does not tell us what happens to the characters. We have to use our imagination. He's a competent writer, but he lacks imagination. Is it just my imagination, or is it getting warm in here?
Recent Examples on the WebAt least show some imagination and go for a heptagon next time. Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022 For 70 years, Walt Disney Imagineering has blended imagination with cutting-edge technology to create groundbreaking experiences. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Sep. 2022 Every work of fantasy that came later, from the Harry Potter novels and Star Wars movies to games like Dungeons and Dragons, owes a great debt to Tolkien’s astonishing imagination and pays homage to it. John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022 But the prospect of working with the gritty stuff of locomotives fired Leshchenko’s imagination. Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022 But the star attraction — the painting that captured everyone’s imagination — was by Henri Regnault, a 26-year-old painter with an athletic build, a long, pointed beard and hair that coiled in tight, glossy waves.Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022 Here is scientific support for the idea that imagination can supercharge our sexuality: My research participants lighted up their brain’s pleasure centers by just thinking about genital stimulation, without any touch at all. Dr. Nan Wise, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2022 In a year when fabulous postpunks from the Smashing Pumpkins to Hole failed to capture the mass imagination, here come four 30-ish guys in bowling shirts with their fingers on the pulse of young America. Chris Norris, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2022 Throughout the film, there is more personal affection for Thorgerson’s brilliant imagination than for his apparent lifelong rudeness and brusqueness. Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English ymaginacioun, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French ymaginacion, borrowed from Latin imāginātiōn-, imāginātiō, from imāginārī "to imagine" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action