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❝ ᵇᵘᵗ ˢᵘʳᵉˡʸˑˑˑ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳˢᵗ ʷᵃʸ ᵗᵒ ᶠᵃˡˡ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ˡᵒᵛᵉˑˑ ᶤˢ ᵗᵒ ᵍʳᵒʷ ᵗᵒ ʰᵃᵗᵉ ʷʰᵃᵗ ᵒᶰᶜᵉ ʷᵃˢ ʸᵒᵘʳˢˑ❞
Again, Haruka looked up to the sky. As cliche as the action was in itself, it was slightly more warming than anything else. Looking at a building dowsed in red? That sounded more like a way to scare a man into confessing his sins, even if they weren't really his.
A long time ago, or what seemed like a long time ago, Haruka recalls reading books of crime and punishment, those fictional ones that take said prisoner to stranger lands where their morals are repaired. When returning to their homeland they turn over a new leaf; avoiding the police and becoming something upon the lines of a volunteer worker with a cute wife and.. so on. Unless they chose to remain in the world,where they'd find love somewhere, and learn to do all kinds of crazy things like riding dragons and making potions.
... But could this world be described at that? For as far as he could see, the only abnormality of it were that the once busy streets where as bare as ever (A permanent midnight? No, there were streetlamps lighting u the street than-- and a mixture of the drunk and sad wandering around) and thus... he was lost.
Was that a good thing? Licking his lips in anticipation of the answer, he thought harder about every face he'd seen brushing past him. Everyone here was lost, where they all in the right and wrong? Had such a place destroyed the black-and-white boundaries of where they came from? Could a murderer come here and question himself? Could a chef who cooks food for the homeless do the same? Because... here, anyone was anyone, they could be the worst person they wanted to be or the best person in suit
And... no, Haruka shook his head clear of anything that seemed to be lingering at the back, and tore his gaze away from the looming sky. Every time he looked.. it seemed to grow a little less appealing, and more like another burden one must face at the dawn of every day. This land was unrecognizable, but everything was exactly where he left it. The school desk he used to sit at would probably have that half-broke pencil sitting at the edge of his desk, just like where he left it.
Bitter, that's what this was. It was a bitter place with heavy air that wraps around his arms like those countless medical tubes had done so. How unpleasant. Although, getting stuck in his own thoughts... was probably a bad turn of what good fortune is waiting for him-- that was probably the kind of thing he should be thinking. The belief that all dark spots could be translated into gold was a fleeting one, and Haruka really never was one for something as... paper thin.
Stories were nice, yes, and so were pictures. Spoken word tales from old men were nice. Songs following someones life were nice.
-- But never would you be able to push your hand through the paper that has the notes written on to actually become a part of the music. Never would you be able to insert yourself into a story already written out. Never would you ever be able to... live in a city.. that's eating itself from the inside out.