ITP: THE GREATEST DARKNESS

[beeurfriend]

[On the dirty floor leaning on a wall near you is a young man, looking fairly battered and probably cold. He seems bewildered by the oversized sign put up next to him, but doesn't appear to mind enough to bother with removing it, or moving much at all. The sign portrays a person a few years his senior, and asks as follows:]

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

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Comments

[thethirdd]

... why are you in the dirt again? Already?

[beeurfriend]

I told you it's bound to happen to a loser like me.

[thethirdd]

The loser talk again. Doesn't it get old?

[beeurfriend]

Not as long as you acknowledge it.

[thethirdd]

I'm not sure what's to acknowledge.

[beeurfriend]

That I suck.

[thethirdd]

Only because you want to. Which is pretty silly.

[beeurfriend]

That's not true. I used to grasp for the light.

[thethirdd]

You decided you liked it on the ground then? And stopped?

[beeurfriend]

Would you understand what it's like, to be abandoned countless times by all you've dedicated yourself to?

[thethirdd]

Me? I'm just a mistake ... but what good is it if you give up? Not much really.

[beeurfriend]

I'm with someone who won't abandon me now.

[thethirdd]

Might be awhile before you see them again. If you're here and they're not.

[beeurfriend]

We're both unlucky like that.

[thethirdd]

Maybe you are unlucky!

[beeurfriend]

What, are you agreeing with me now?