A New World

Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Contemplation

Late nights are the times when Erratum starts contemplating his existence, something about the quiet nights with his window open to let the breeze of the night in is so peaceful he spends most of his time sitting on his bed and looking out of the window and to the stars.

Sometimes his kids will sleep with him on his bed, saying 'they wanna sleep with daddy' or because of a nightmare. On those days he will let them into his bed and let them sleep beside him, but he never sleeps, he only watches the stars and contemplates things, wondering how it works, and sometimes what Meonji called a 'midlife crisis' or an 'existential crisis', whatever those meant.

Sometimes he will think about the people he knew, like Night or Granny G and think about how much he knows about them and how well he could read them.

Tonight wasn't about them, tonight seems to be Meonji, he was sitting in his usual spot by the window with a cup of hot chocolate in his hands and watching the stars. It never really struck him how little he knows about the brunette, he knows the little things, like her three jobs, her likes, and dislikes, but nothing important. He doesn't know how she came here, her reason to move to his area, nothing. He can't even read her easily.

But he does know things that can't be seen by others, he notices the small and unnoticeable flinches she gives when someone is too loud, he notices the sometimes dazed look on her face, he notices the small energy of danger her comfort wrapped around her like his powers, he sees the way she looks to Lịch like the woman in the story, so much that when he images the woman the image always come up as her.

Not for the first time, he wonders if the woman was someone like him, but he knows that couldn't be true at all, there is no one like him 'But maybe there is' Somewhere deep in his mind says 'Maybe that book of yours are real' It says more, but he brushed it off, no way is that true, even if he hopes it is, right?

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