o9 - text

[stoicloyalty]

[ After her increasingly emotionally-engaged network posts, this might seem like a return to her first few months. Wrestling with the decision whether to post anonymously or not had been difficult for the connotations of this fact when made public, let alone what her own initial thoughts were on discovering his absence. ]

Huey Laforet is gone.

[ Without much grandeur, it seemed; she couldn't find a trace of his departure or a note in his apartment. Rather than broadcasting the details of the fact, this is a message for those who knew him-- not for people to consider what it means for her. ]