The blood must have already, in its own silent way, seeped inside.

“Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was…”

“Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once…”

“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes…”

“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself…”