“I didn’t think it possible. Was it a betrayal? Had I offended them somehow? I didn’t think they could forget me so completely. “But they did. “They forgot me. “They were together, he and she, yet I could not feel them. They thought only of each other. I was not part of it. “They left me alone.” I have always understood bodies better than voices or faces or words. So when Shiny whispered to me of horror, of a single moment of solitude after an eternity of companionship, it was not his words that conveyed the devastation this had wreaked on his soul. He was pressed against me as intimately as a
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