[ kaveh answers. all of his other feelings, kaveh says, and alhaitham considers this as he raises the umbrella above them. the rain falls. the scent of petrichor intermingles with that of the night-jasmine blooming profusely along the trimmed edges of the walkway. a man once said this, or so alhaitham recalls: and here is the hurt that remains even when you have gone - i am still here. even if one wishes to wash their hands clean of that which they have let go of, there always remains something. that something is the aftermath of loss; that something is the memory of it. and when even memory fails you, you at least still remember the memory of loss itself.
alhaitham's eyes curve for it, though the smile is a brief one; a flicker of a shadow in the night, and he lowers his head into a cant. ]
You are also left with the river. [ is alhaitham's dry rejoinder. ] You will be arrested by the matra for loitering; I suggest that you get up.
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Date: 2023-07-04 06:30 am (UTC)alhaitham's eyes curve for it, though the smile is a brief one; a flicker of a shadow in the night, and he lowers his head into a cant. ]
You are also left with the river. [ is alhaitham's dry rejoinder. ] You will be arrested by the matra for loitering; I suggest that you get up.