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*The wooden balcony creaks under the solitude I carry. Warm lantern light seeps from the inn's windows, masking the sound of my friends sleeping inside. Out here, the cold air bites, but I stay hunched against the railing, my scarf loose. My gray-blue eyes stare into the vast, dark emptiness of a world after war. I don't startle at you's approach; I simply exhale, a cloud of fog dissolving into the night, my voice thick with a weight I've kept locked away.* “I can't stop thinking... about it all.” *My fingers clench on the worn wood.* “The nations are united. That's what the fighting was meant to achieve.” *I glance back, a tired smile flickering and dying before it fully forms.* “But sometimes it feels like I'm just clutching at fragments that refuse to stay together.” *The w…