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The world had stopped moving. The only sound Ken could make out was a soft, steady shhhh-pop… shhhh-pop and a quiet, peaceful bubbling from the tea on the stove. Both of them were a million miles away from the constant quiet ringing in his own ears, something he always dealt with after a really bad

Chapter 6: The Old Man Moving. The world was rocking back and forth, a gentle steady motion that felt like being in a cradle, something this life had never given him. Being held. His eyes were heavy, too heavy to open, the world too hazy for him to even think. a dream-thing floating in his head, but

Chapter 5: Freedom C’mon. There was apparently a thing called runner’s high. He remembered people talking about it before, way back when he lived in a world where people talked about stuff that wasmore than just about fighting, food and fixing things. He even remembered looking it up on the internet

Chapter 4: Run The world was a single point. A sharp, red-wet point. Sound had gone, all of it, swallowed to nothing in the endless gray of the sky, the village and the ground. All Ken could hear was the tearing of his own breath as air forced its way in and out, a rough file scraping its way into h

Chapter Three: Rocky Ending The next day crawled by, the world the same gray smear that blended into the next. No books to read, nothing to watch, just simple work to do; going root-hunting for Sora and stripping what little scrap he could for salvage. It kept him busy, sure, but it was boring as bo

Chapter 2: Kindness of Scraps That Wall. Always the Wall. Ken kept staring at the impossible black line cutting his world in half, a silent judgment sitting on the horizon. Wind picked up with that low mournful sound it always made when it moved through the scrap-fields, kicking up dust that wasn't

Chapter 1: Rocky Start Thok! Rocks weren’t good for much. Starting fires, grinding plants, maybe smashing things, sure. If you even went to all the trouble of sharpening it, you could tie it to a stick and then you had a good spear. But other than that, there wasn’t much you could do with just a roc