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Prophecy...5 liters...

"Garrett stays like that, stoic and watching the fire build and die between adding branches to the flame as the moon climbs in the sky through a sea of stars. Garrett considers his surroundings before he lets his mind wander. Those who drank it all up stared at a dim sky with scant pin points of light. They were dull, artificial lights made...
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Parting shots and stray memories. I really am an onion, every time I think I'm done there comes another quickly browning layer to pull off. Some other past issue I can chew through and feed off of. A never ending cavalcade of self fulfilling prophecies related to my self loathing. Something new to me like a shitty thrift store Christmas, remember when ______ did _____....
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Fear of the other...5 liters...
"Garrett is quick to note the sullen change in her demeanor. “The elders told me the Arwyks laid in wait, probably not far from where we are now. Their warriors were nearly three hundred strong, or so the tale tells. Many of that number were the freshly taken slaves from the neighboring tribe and those slaves didn’t care to die...
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Polite Banter...5 liters...

“You know, I met Carrington once. Eustice, who names their child Eustice without knowing at the outset that he’s going to wind up an idiot or a monster. He came here on business when that girl upstairs was still crawling on all fours. He was looking to secure interest in his little trash mine. He’s a short man, I don’t abide short...
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Don't be good...be yourself...5 liters...
"Melissa is red faced, flushed with the exertion of running down the stairs and out into the roughly cobbled street. It can’t be much more than forty degrees out but she’s wearing nothing but the simple shift Gris first tore apart for her to wear in the wastes and a pair of filthy socks that threaten to come off with...
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They said that nothing in life was free, certainly not love.

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Savages...5 liters...

“Remember what I told you that first day after we left Maytag?”

“About bears who eat their young?”

“Circumstance is our inevitable enemy, and hate can be a faithful servant in a crisis but unlike pain it isn’t a constant in life, it can’t be. You’ve added a post script to the story of my life. There has to be hope, even if...
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Familiarity truly does breed contempt.

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