12-17-2008, 05:28 PM
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And just like that, they were almost back up to the present day, the parts that she remembered and on occasion wished she could forget. Corona didn't say anything for a while after that, letting it stew in her mind while her eyes lost their focus. There were other things to listen to and focus on, like the coughing. The rate at which he seemed to persist at whittling away life. She knew they were there. They had seemingly always been there, somewhere in the back of her mind. But they never spoke up.
“How do you think things would have turned out if you had never gone back to Chimera?” she asked finally, genuinely curious of the path that hadn't been taken. There was no way to take it now of course, but to speculate was fine with her. “How do you think I would have come out?” Or the others, even. Sometimes she wondered what it would have been like to stay back with her siblings and her mother. How different would things have really been compared to the way they were now?
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let the dogs bite at your ankles
And just like that, they were almost back up to the present day, the parts that she remembered and on occasion wished she could forget. Corona didn't say anything for a while after that, letting it stew in her mind while her eyes lost their focus. There were other things to listen to and focus on, like the coughing. The rate at which he seemed to persist at whittling away life. She knew they were there. They had seemingly always been there, somewhere in the back of her mind. But they never spoke up.
“How do you think things would have turned out if you had never gone back to Chimera?” she asked finally, genuinely curious of the path that hadn't been taken. There was no way to take it now of course, but to speculate was fine with her. “How do you think I would have come out?” Or the others, even. Sometimes she wondered what it would have been like to stay back with her siblings and her mother. How different would things have really been compared to the way they were now?
let the sunshine burn your eyes