Jun 27, 2020
Chapter Sixteen: Remembering His Name
You are looking uncomfortable.
"Jim is safe," you repeat. "I will join with him again at midnight, and we will continue as before, until his body grows old and I take him inside me like he took me inside him."
"But -" I look at you, aghast - don't you understand?
"Does he know I'm here, or does he think I'm dead? How is he feeling? He must be so - it seemed the only way out for me - but it must break his heart -"
I'm about to ask you to go to him, when I realize you're no longer listening. You've stopped dead, are looking somewhere way beyond me, your eyes large, dark, shocked, in pain.
And then you're gone.
One second you're here, the next I'm staring at thin air.
"Jim?" I call out.
"Thanatos?"
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