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Smoke and Mirrors
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"In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us." – Josh Billings
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title: he looks back
prompt: O; old
featuring: Charlie
set: during episode 10, "snap"
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A man can age a lifetime in days. Not in looks, though Charlie didn't remember being so grey, and not the number, either—but in experience. Experiences like his could cause any man to walk with a stoop, old and broken and alone.
In one day he watched the marina explode and witnessed his dead wife being cut down from a tree. He sent his daughter away a few days later—days that felt like years.
Seven long years went by—seven centuries.
But Charlie Mills never felt so old as when the past finally caught up to him.
Wakefield…