It just keeps taking.

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Do you ever step into the world and realise it's not the same place as yesterday? That your walls of reality have been torn down and restructured in some twisted design? That's how life is sometimes. Can change and deform into paradise- or your worst nightmare on a whim.

3 words. That's all it took to plunge him into desperation. Into grief and roaring sadness. The piercing numbness seeped through every fibre. The implausibility of ever feeling 'fine' again. And what right did he have to? The fact he didn't help. The fact he didn't save her. Didn't even try.

He knows it's not actually his fault. He just doesn't realise it- because it's easier than the alternative.

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