Blue
I wandered through each room like it was a cathedral.
In the library, I found a sticky note taped to the whiteboard. Kid handwriting in crooked letters:
That broke me.
I sank to the floor, tears spilling unchecked. Faron sat down beside me and handed me a marker.
“What should we write?” he asked.
I looked at him. Voice thick. “Hope lives here.”
He smiled. “Then that’s what we write.”
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