Smultron appeared on his screen late one night as he desperately sought an escape, refuge. It was the polar opposite of his norm-nature, calm, privacy, quiet, anonymity-an old worn-down house with a forgotten garden. Even from the few images, he could sense the serenity it promised.
A quick Google search of "Smultron place" revealed the Swedish definition: a highly personal place, an escape from the world, a place you wish to keep to yourself. Despite his efforts to find it, the place seemed non-existent, a metaphor, a fairytale.
And so, he ran. Far and fast, never looking back. Fate granted him a sanctuary to forget his past, lock it away from the world and himself. He locked it away in a dark room, both metaphorically and literally, and only then could he breathe.
Or so he thought..
A warm breeze would sweep in from the West unexpectedly and show him he'd been holding his breath all along..
Or: the one where Louis finds a mysterious place called Smultron, a seemingly non-existent sanctuary that leads him to flee his past and realize he's been holding his breath all along..
Louis is tiered of life. His demons from the past won't let him rest and he's a loner. Nothing worth living for.
But then he meets Harry, a bundle of sunshine and slowly the darkness in his life fades away.
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The trauma I'm describing in this story is not made up. I researched it to keep the story as real as possible.