The silence after the storm

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The smell of rain was still hanging heavily in the air, though it's been hours since the storm passed on to some other city. It was refreshing but also so quiet, a deafening silence that almost felt painful. The streets were nearly empty and the wet stone alleys stayed untouched. The autumn wind was cold and slightly unpleasant, but easy to breathe in and refreshing compared to the glaring heat for just a few weeks ago. Did time always fly by like this?

Even the castle was quiet after everyone's wounds had been treated. No one dared to say anything, like all the words would get stuck in their throats. The silence was heavy and crushing as it wafted around every action they made like the mist hanging at the horizon.
No one knew what they could do to comfort each other, last night none of them found sleep, even though it was all supposed to be over it felt unfinished.

Would it stay like this forever? Avoiding each other and scrambling away into rather hidden areas of the castle, just so they wouldn't have to confront the reality. The reality that it was over and that this was the unchangeable present, that there was no way of going back and fixing that what broke, even if it was the thing they all desired most right now.
For them to not have suffered.

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