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When the river swallows
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Ongoing, First published Mar 16, 2025
Mature
The earth shattered. 
It was a violent thing.
And it left a bitter taste in your mouth in the end.
He was the first and the last to die.
There is irony in that.
Khalid
I knew the meaning of his name like I knew my own. It was engraved into my poor soul for eternity.\
Eternal, everlasting
Immortal. Not to die of the fate of something as pitiful as being drunk on the road and making a mistake turn too quickly.
My fate was different, set from the beginning. 
Naida
Water Nymph. I died when he died, the sea is everlasting, I died when my element died.
Irony.
This is not really a love story. Sometimes I wonder if we were even in love. But he needed a place to live and I needed him to stop polluting myself. So suddenly we needed each other, and then we died for each other.

And the cruel reality is...
That was it.

That's what happens...
When the river swallows.
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