Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28776596-20190910204518/@comment-43741305-20190911101542

"Want advice straight from the heart, darrin'?" I sigh, adjusting my glasses. "Leave. This place is rotten to the core and the last thing it can save it is love, or an occupation force that comes in peace."

I pause, shaking my head a little, my heart heavier than it shows. "Seriously. Go. Stay in your peaceful world, and never come back here. Leave us to entropy, that it may do its work."

There is no answer as the light fades, pulsing weakly into nothingness, and my house falls silent once again. Outside, the traffic noise, the hawkers and the roosters rise as they were silenced until a minute ago.

I smile - a small little thing on my thin lips. I saved them, and they don't even know it.