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Loren Hale
“Every single part of me is alive today. And it’ll be tomorrow. I’m not dying in my own body anymore. I am truly living. Peace courses through me. It’s the quiet that I never thought existed. And the heaven that I never believed was meant for me.”
“Name one hero who was happy. You can’t.”
“I can’t.”
“I know. They never let you be famous and happy. I’ll tell you a secret.”
“Tell me.”
“I’m going to be the first.” He took my palm and held it to his. “Swear it.”
“Why me?”
“Because you’re the reason. Swear it.”
“I swear it,”
“We are dust & shadows. It’s not a long life killing demons; one tends to die young & then they burn your body—dust to dust in the literal sense. Then we vanish into the shadows of history nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.”