A STEP TO ATONEMENTShe stared at him, walking her eyes to his lips which were moving but seemed not to be making a single sound. She heard nothing he was saying. "Maria. Maria, are you listening?" he asked but he got no response from her. "Maria," he called her again, tapping her lightly to bring her out of whatever reverie she was lost in. She seems to have always been in a trance since yesterday. “Huhn? What? What were you saying?” she asked, looking lost. “I said we should go home,” he was gentle with her, so gentle that he could feel it himself. This wasn’t him and if he had been told he’d cared so much about how a person feels years back, he’d have sued such a person. He doesn't miss his old self though but he never saw himself as he is presently. He had caused her pain after all, he needed to take responsibility for that. There was something about Maria that he still could not put a finger at. The way she effortlessly curbed his wings was a mystery to him. He had always l
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