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    The sun’s slow arc across the sky weighed on him with a ruthless inevitability. The merciless circle of his daily labours never ended. Each sunrise marked the beginning of the hunt for Visitors within his own house; each sunset meant Russian roulette for the lost souls who had stumbled onto his threshold.

    Paranoia now ruled his mind. Every face seemed hostile; every stranger schemed or concealed something — every one thirsted for blood. He only wanted protection.

    And to protect — but could the gunpowder on his fingers, his sleepless nights, his iron grip on the shotgun really change anything?

    If they could hold on to anything as the world burned out, he would have wished to keep those dark eyes — and the wordless, wholehearted conversations of touches, smiles, and glances, something that meant more to them than words ever could.

    What they had had made him alive again — and perhaps that would be enough to make death turn its gaze aside for just a moment. And a moment was all they asked for.

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