# the barmaid and the ashen one

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barmaid: “Last day, huh?”
ashen one: “I guess so”
barmaid: “Have something to say, don’t you?”
ashen one: “ *sigh * I think I dug myself a hole so deep that now I am lost under the ground, too far down from the surface, worse than that, I’ve been there for too long and the comfort is growing within myself. I no longer long for a way out but at the same time I can sense a tiny fracture of myself screaming, stretching to the sky but all of that, all the effort were in vain and so close to the edge of hopelessness. Maybe that is what’s left of my humanity…
*chuckle *
What if all of my humanity has finally lost?”
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𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

-R