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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[thethirdd]

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

[thethirdd]

I could have said 'it depends on what you do with your luck or lack of it' but that wouldn't get us anywhere.

[beeurfriend]

I didn't think you would try to relate to this after all.

[thethirdd]

If you can't relate, it's hard to understand!

[beeurfriend]

[turns, crawling a little closer. you are now his priority of attention]

You mentioned that you were a mistake.

[thethirdd]

That's what caught your attention?

[beeurfriend]

Shouldn't it?

[thethirdd]

Maybe. But I can't regret that now.

[beeurfriend]

No, it's best to accept your failure.

Maybe you should become my brother too.

[thethirdd]

But I already have and I'm going to make the best out of what I've got.

... that's a little ... creepy really.

[beeurfriend]

-- No, it's not.

[thethirdd]

When you ask me like that, I think it is. It really is.

[beeurfriend]

...

[thethirdd]

... what did you mean by that exactly?

[beeurfriend]

It's what he did. [looking at the sign] When the light betrayed me.

[thethirdd]

[... hahaha]

Right. I didn't think light could betray someone.