268 days.
Niou wakes up with a throbbing bandaged-head, needles in his hand, chords to his chest, and fake flowers on his bed stand. There's a card with chicken scratch on it.
Things that live can't die.
There's a different between being alive and living. You're alive, breathing and talking and smoking. People who live do things that people remember like Orion.
Are you living?
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