This is an INTERLUDE. Primarily to demonstrate that hope has no place in their relationship. Also, the weird style is um...I guess I saw it as a video in my mind, all stop-starty and such. And maybe a conversation. Yes, perhaps. Will be a bit more normal next chap.

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vii. hope

(interlude)

We'll go together.

I would miss you.

together. together

miss you…would….I…miss…you.

A butterfly with blue wings like a girl's eyes like a boy's eyes like the sea and the sky and- oh. No, maybe something else, then. Red sunset like a girl's hair and a boy's clothes and the roof of a house and

-his hair. A boy's hair? A man's hair?

Go. Go together. Just the two of us. I'm leaving-no one will miss me. We'll go together. Just the two of us. No one will miss-us, together, just the two of miss you would the two of us go…

Gold-golden. Yellow? Bright. Like someone's (him) eyes and a boy's hair and a girl's hair and the sun. Not here, no. Elsewhere. With the butterfly and a girl and a boy and sea and sky-oh.

We'll go together. I'll miss you.

Black. Blackblackblack like the rain.

Yes, like hope.

We'll go together.

together together just the two of us alone

I'll miss you.

miss you…I….would…miss…me?

Black rain on a blue butterfly and a red sunset on gold-golden boy's hair girl's hair and grey grey grey.

miss you. miss you. miss…you….mi-

together.

black-like hope

no.