[ couple years off, but it doesn't matter now. especially doesn't matter when it's so far off from how he looks, what peoples' assumptions of him are. of course, his gravestone suggests a different age entirely, but he'll let mk ask about that, if the kid's inclined to.
(he feels, when he looks mk straight in the eyes, that he can see a dead world reflected back at him. if he looks, really looks, he can see the cold ashes where the fires have burnt out, the blood where there's nothing left, the weight of what it is to rip yourself to pieces in the name of survival.)
he looks down. ]
I never found out. I've just seen the before, and the after. But in my world, no one survived the destruction. [ looks back to mk long enough to ask, ] How many others are there?
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Nearly sixty years.
[ couple years off, but it doesn't matter now. especially doesn't matter when it's so far off from how he looks, what peoples' assumptions of him are. of course, his gravestone suggests a different age entirely, but he'll let mk ask about that, if the kid's inclined to.
(he feels, when he looks mk straight in the eyes, that he can see a dead world reflected back at him. if he looks, really looks, he can see the cold ashes where the fires have burnt out, the blood where there's nothing left, the weight of what it is to rip yourself to pieces in the name of survival.)
he looks down. ]
I never found out. I've just seen the before, and the after. But in my world, no one survived the destruction. [ looks back to mk long enough to ask, ] How many others are there?