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The After-End -#6
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2021-11-13 18:48:33The intricate patterns of ice hovered weightlessly dancing in the air like a dry feather. Each white flake glittered in the red moonlight, it drifted down to his left cheek. He stood up and observed his surroundings. He noticed a thin blanket of snow on the trees and ground as clumps of wet flakes continued to drift down endlessly. The icicles on a tree dropped with a loud smash, like glass cracking and shattering raising his adrenaline level with the false alarm. He admitted that he was scared, jumpy probably because he just had a dream but when he started to feel too much cold around him he glanced down at his clothes. He realized otherwise when he noticed the cut patterns on his cloth at the front and the faint red scratches on his chest affirmed his fears. It wasn't a dream.
I'm safe. He thought and he puffed out in relief. He felt faint a
ayGaiusIt's very strange what life throws at people. At one time, there is laughter then sorrow follows -in that format the good follows the bad like a cycle. And that's life. Just imagine, what hell will be like. Life on its own with sorrow, pain, anguish all around. I wonder how he will do in this chapter...I hope he finds his only family soon enough.
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