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September Chapter 108: The Current Flows
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The seawater on his hands was fleeting and only temporary in the first attempt at grasps that Jasper's hands made to each out at it.
His legs and feet were soaked in the water that reached up to his waist, swishing around him and constantly trying to uproot him and pull him away from the air that he needed.
The more that he stood there, the more that the sea aggressively grasped at him and tugged at the edge of his clothing, the uniform that Jasper had worn every single day at the Sýnnefa military research facility, forcing him to do the same work every single day, with the same guards, the same workers, in the same conditions.
The sea had wrapped itself around his body, and Jasper, feeling the cold rush of it, dipped his hands in properly, his wrists and forearms splashed and soaked by the current.
To let go was tantamount to letting himself almost drown in the ocean, to let himself go was to surrender to the flow of the wider world around h
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