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|line=From the rearview mirror, ������ saw the sun rising on his neck.<br>"You're nervous." | |line=From the rearview mirror, ������ saw the sun rising on his neck.<br>"You're nervous." | ||
|content=���� shook his head but said nothing <br> | |content=���� shook his head but said nothing <br>"How long has it been?" ������ asked, tilting his gaze away from ����'s reflection.<br>"A couple of years." <br>������ sighs, shifting in his seat. The silence they fell into was only interrupted by the occasional hum of the engine as they pass through fields and fields of grass. <br>"You didn't have to bring me. I didn't have to come." ���� said, looking out the side window. "If you're that worried how I'll be, or how your family..." <br>"If I didn't ask you, you wouldn't come along." ���� said. It's a firm, calm statement-yet tense nonetheless. He shook his head. "I want you here." <br>���� took a hand off the wheel to pat ������ on the head. "It'll be fun. Trust me. My hometown's no circus'" <br> ������ smirked. "Oh really? I assumed so. Considering you're the biggest clown I know." <br> | ||
"How long has it been?" ������ asked, tilting his gaze away from ����'s reflection.<br>"A couple of years." <br> | |||
������ sighs, shifting in his seat. The silence they fell into was only interrupted by the occasional hum of the engine as they pass through fields and fields of grass. <br> | |||
"You didn't have to bring me. I didn't have to come." ���� said, looking out the side window. "If you're that worried how I'll be, or how your family..." <br> | |||
"If I didn't ask you, you wouldn't come along." ���� said. It's a firm, calm statement-yet tense nonetheless. He shook his head. "I want you here." <br> | |||
���� took a hand off the wheel to pat ������ on the head. "It'll be fun. Trust me. My hometown's no circus'" <br> ������ smirked. "Oh really? I assumed so. Considering you're the biggest clown I know." <br> | |||
The sun continued to rise, in a blinding curve of light that bisected the grasslands. The car didn't break down, and neither did they. | The sun continued to rise, in a blinding curve of light that bisected the grasslands. The car didn't break down, and neither did they. | ||
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|line=...and then ������ saw it, the glow. The endless sky, the untouched stars. A boundless, infinite, unknowing unknown that stretched far beyond the grass beneath his pals.<br>The world, the world he knew-one of so much pain and struggle-dwarfed and miniscule in the grandest contexts. | |line=...and then ������ saw it, the glow. The endless sky, the untouched stars. A boundless, infinite, unknowing unknown that stretched far beyond the grass beneath his pals.<br>The world, the world he knew-one of so much pain and struggle-dwarfed and miniscule in the grandest contexts. | ||
|content=In that moment, he couldn't make sense of it-why such a wide and boundless world would ever allow him to cross paths with ����.<br>The night sky is endless, and the stars are countless. <br> | |content=In that moment, he couldn't make sense of it-why such a wide and boundless world would ever allow him to cross paths with ����.<br>The night sky is endless, and the stars are countless. <br>The abrupt closing of a car door disturbed this peaceful panorama as ������ quickly sat up, dusting himself off. He'd look back at ����, who was walking over from the car.<br>"My uncle would take me and my cousins here once a month," ���� began as he sat down beside ������. "He'd sit us down right over there-next to the river. He'd tell us that all those stars and the land beneath them were made for us. And the beauty of this world belonged to those who are willing to see it." <br>���� shrugged, then layed down on the grass. "He tried being a poet, but no publisher would touch his manuscripts." <br>������ snickered, letting his gaze lay upon the Spokane river which bisected the land. "I don't think your uncle has the poetic mind they're looking for."<br>Then he lifted his head up, to see the world beyond his own. <br>"...But he does know the best places to stargaze." | ||
The abrupt closing of a car door disturbed this peaceful panorama as ������ quickly sat up, dusting himself off. He'd look back at ����, who was walking over from the car.<br> | |||
"My uncle would take me and my cousins here once a month," ���� began as he sat down beside ������. "He'd sit us down right over there-next to the river. He'd tell us that all those stars and the land beneath them were made for us. And the beauty of this world belonged to those who are willing to see it." <br> | |||
���� shrugged, then layed down on the grass. "He tried being a poet, but no publisher would touch his manuscripts." <br> | |||
������ snickered, letting his gaze lay upon the Spokane river which bisected the land. "I don't think your uncle has the poetic mind they're looking for."<br>Then he lifted his head up, to see the world beyond his own. <br> | |||
"...But he does know the best places to stargaze." | |||
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|line=are you with the alliance? are you a catoptrist? | |line=are you with the alliance? are you a catoptrist?<br><br>what’s a catoptrist?<br>never mind… | ||
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what’s a catoptrist?<br> | |||
never mind… | |||
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