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Summary
"In the way the water grows grey, polluted over the years, from clear blue to a murky green sludge, but no one is around long enough to notice. No one pays attention until it's too late, until someone drops a match into the oil drenched water and watches it light up in flame. Smoke fills the sky and no one can fan it away.
A steadily, slowly, increasing itch in the back of his mind, the quietest thought, under the level of unconsciousness until it's nearly comatose. A pounding in his cranium that announced itself at 3 in the morning, heartbreakingly sober and fingertips numb. A sickening weight in his stomach, liquid metal, that evened out as he stood to start the day.
Maybe, he should've stopped drinking before bed.
Most likely, it was just liver cancer. "
An impossible decision, a forced hand, and sins unearthed from the past. There is nothing he can do but watch it fall, and hope this time, it's the last.
Series
- Part 2 of Project Cauldron