Honesty… it’s a strange thing. It used to feel like you could recognize it right away. Now everything sounds honest, until you realize we’ve forgotten what pure honesty even feels like.
It was understood, eventually, that this was not a reopening. What preceded that understanding was illusion, grown in isolation, fed by a love that somehow survived its own conclusion, drawn deliberately, by the one who drew it.
Does any of this line up with what's actually rattling around inside? That echo's been loose in there a while now. Long enough to start breaking things.
Every table keeps a jar. Inside the jar, a small creature made of whispers.
Some jars are labeled saint, some monster. The creature never chooses the label; the room does.
Good souls were bruised while silence kept the room warm. A voice arrived late, choosing whatever passed for right in the dark. Still the weight remained — a crime without a culprit, a verdict without a sin.