She chokes back sobs.
No. No, this can't be it.
It can't be.
But...
A perfect solution, conjured, it seemed, out of thin-thin air.
Yes.
Too perfect.
All but an illusion.
So what did it matter now?
She'd put-poured, even, poured her trust out, learned not to hide-
But for what?
This?
Lesson number one, Mari. You can't trust anyone.
His voice echoes back at her, through the years and years between them, the space and time between the place where her memories are buried.
You can't trust anyone.
Not even yourself. You see?
Yes, she'd answered, sobbing.
Yes, I do see...
And it scares you?
Yes!
But the sooner you learn this, the better.
She did learn.
To close herself off, so distant from everyone and everything.
Of course, she way the city worked, well, at the end of the day she wasn't even sure whether the fault was hers...or theirs.
Did no one care?
Or did she distance herself?
But that was it.
No one knew. No one questioned it.
Just fell into darker and darker holes of their own making, until their minds were weak.
Easily controlled-for most under the bishops' control...most were already fighting against themselves.
Mari sighs, trying to pull herself back to the present.
She still feels some lingering remnants of sadness.
Tries to push them away.
Things are supposed to be different now.
Well-
She remembers the other harsh, unpleasant reality.
They were supposed to be different.
But now they're not.
Now, the world safe has lost all meaning...
Now, she's trapped in survival mode, just trying to make it through these hazy, impossible days.
Just a ghost...
How long until she fades entirely?
Will she disappear along with him?
Maybe, she thinks, maybe it's better that way.
"It's not."
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Øverturning the lies (a twenty one pilots fanfiction)
FanfictionTyler is alone in the city of Dema. He can't remember who he was before then. All he knows now is trying to survive in this world. He sees others around him who are struggling too, and he wants to help them. But he can't. He can't even seem to help...
