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Chapter XXX: Rest Day

Author: leightsht8
last update Last Updated: 2021-12-21 23:01:45
I finished three bowls of rice. Probably because of the hunger that I am feeling since a lot of things happened early in the morning. Or because I just simply missed this food. It’s nostalgic, bringing me back to Ariel – to home.

It feels like a very long time since I had thought about home. Most of the time I don’t consider Ariel as home because it does not feel like it. But I cannot think of anything as home except Ariel.

Home is a place where I live with my parents, with the people I grew up with – by that I meant all the people at our house including the guards and the maids. Basically that’s home. But home is more than that – more than a concrete wall. More than the parts of an infrastructure. Because most of the time, home are people.

I have been longing for home for a long time.

The warmth love that it gives on a cold night that you are doubting everything, even yourself. The words of encouragement that you can only seek at the shelter you always run at when everything ha
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