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Paper Puppet Show
Prologue
Ren unlocks the door to his apartment drenched from rain. The rain is a lot stronger than last night, the sky almost seems sad, as if the downpour was it's tears. He enters his house that shows no signs of somebody else being there beside him. There's not even a single light that's on and there's only his shoes in the hallway.
Ren takes off his shoes and throws his damp jacket on the floor. As he walks to the living-room area he switches light on everywhere he can without taking a detour. When there is only one switch left to press - the one for the lights in the living-room - to illuminate most of his apartment, he sees her face lit by the smartphone in her hands. He hits the last light switch making the darkness in the room disappear.
He walks towards her, but it seems that she doesn't hear his steps, doesn't even notice that she is no longer surrounded by the dark. She's still in her Box-R school uniform, hinting that she got here as soon as she finished her scenes for the day. She's sitting on the sofa with her shoes thrown next to it and her hair still a bit wet from the rain. She doesn't move even when Ren sits down next to her, keeping her eyes on the phone screen. But her eyes are blank, and even though she's looking down onto the screen it doesn't seem as if she's minding any of the letters flashing on it as she scrolls down. Even the thumb that she does the motion with seems to be controlled by somebody else and not by her.
Ren glances at the phone screen reading few of the sentences. Just what he expected. He takes the phone from her hands and throws it where he sat few seconds ago while kneeling in front of her.
"Kyoko..." Ren says softly and she lifts her eyes to meet his. The moment he can clearly see her face her eyes become alive again. He reaches her cheek with his hand and just as Ren is about to touch her she starts crying.
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