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September Chapter 114: The Metal Sky
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2024-10-29 19:42:56"It was alright."
The lie was a comforting one, passing through the old, old man's lips easily as breathing, those same lips too accustomed to lying.
He had lied for a good portion of his life to both himself and the others.
He had lied that today was going to be a good day, and had done so for every single morning for the past five years, gripping the edge of his blanket at he pulled himself off the floors of his room at the last possible moment he could manage, every single morning.
He had dragged himself to the water fountain, splashing himself in the face and felt all the tiredness from his body drip away and leave him, as he told himself each and every time that he completed the small, personal ritual, fresh and rejuvenated, ready to take on the day and strive for the best person that he could possibly hope to be on this world.
May the Sun Goddess Bless him with good health and fortune!
It had been another lie.
He hadn't seen the
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