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gone

All gone.

The world was suddenly empty and Sarah found herself completely alone.

She wasn’t expecting this. Of course, who could be? The world was so old, so unyielding under foot, her one true constant companion—she never expected to wake one morning and find everything within it simply gone. Not that Sarah truly availed herself of the world’s seemingly infinite wonder, but she had always appreciated knowing that it was there.

Neglect—a refusal to engage her precious world—had seemed like such an unlikely way for it all to come to an end.

And yet, it was so.