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“I never realized what happened until it was done. But sometimes,
when I dream, I can feel it coming over me, the… the weightlessness. The momentum. Even when I hated it, I couldn’t stop myself.
You have to understand that.”
Lucy scoffed.
“I don’t know what she sees in you.”
Ignoring her, Michael set the teapot down lightly and moved into
the living room, eyes cast upward.
“It’s beautiful, isn’t it, Lucy?” Michael asked dreamily. “It just goes
on and on.”
“I wouldn’t know. I can’t see it anymore.”
The rain began growing stronger and slowly, the gleam faded from
Michael’s eyes. He seemed to have arrived at a grim realization, and
when he looked down at Lucy, he seemed more lucid than he had
ever been before.
“Lucy…The rain’s not going to stop, is it?”
Boom. A flash of lightning lit the room with white fire.
“For you, maybe, but never for me,” Lucy said, watching the light
illuminate the hundreds of eyes of the visitors waiting in the shadows. “Some things just can’t be forgiven.”
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