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Chapter 153: Mother's State
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There was nothing around Jasper but grey. And there was nothing around the grey but Jasper. There was nothing around him but the four grey, pattern less walls and the grey pattern less ceiling that his head looked up at. Nothing but the grey The exact surface that had opened up to be the door would have been forgotten a long, long time ago, if Jasper wasn't sure that it was the wall behind him, a fact that he had only remembered and known because of the way that he had been thrown into the room. His limbs dragged along the floor as his those responsible for his torture had gotten bored enough of his inaction, deciding to pummel his ribs inwards one more time, snapping the joints of limbs the wrong way once more, and using this final opportunity to paint upon his skin a collage of blues, purples, browns, reds and greens that seemed to have been imprinted on the very bones of his being. He had been thrown in
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The Boy who Circled Time Chapter 161: Perspective
Inside of the office room, Lila threw herself onto the sofa in the corner and screamed into a pillow. It had been two days already. Two days of her trying and failing to draw Emmet out of the guest room and further into the rest of the building. She had been the extra cooking to make sure that he was still being fed, and was still laying out new clothes for him to wear in lieu of the ones that he had originally arrived to her in. She huffed out a sigh and lay back on the plush leather surface, deciding that watching the flickering shadows on the wall were as good as any course of action that she could possibly take at this point. The sun was setting now, falling down below the faraway line of the horizon, blinding Lila whenever her eyes strayed away from the darkness and towards the window. Wanting to know the time, she reached into her skirt pocket and fished out her phone from in between a pack of Polos and some spare loose change. She sighe
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