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｢One:Shadows:Let it Be｣
His room, a grave for the living. In a bed with white sheets too heavy, he never stirred or or expressed a complaint. But the nurses, oh their voices, gossiped and whispered and uttered words of tragedy and pity—the story becoming more contrived and maladroit each passing day. However, he failed to correct their fiction.
He had been stranded in a cave.
He had fought a bear; a matter of self-preservation.
His best friend had tried to kill him due to a love triangle out of control.
He had been mining for gold—to pay for his sick mother's medicine—when the cave-in occurred.
No friend, relative, or ill mother visited, and the man, bandaged and comatose, dreamed of better days—one could only hope.
His hospital room, a grave memorializing a man still breathing.
He had murdered his two friends.
"Let him be," the doctor berated, and, for now, the cruel voices ceased.