Forever Dead
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Maybe, just maybe, with him by my side I would finally beat my autumn darkness forever. Or was it really that simple? Was anything really that simple?
“Ironic, isn’t it?” he finally said. “Leslie and Don thought they had stumbled on the discovery of their lives, and so Diamond was killed for something that wasn’t real. They all died for something that wasn’t real. At least Diamond got what he wanted though. The logging’s been stopped.”
“But for how long?” I asked. “As soon as word gets out that it was all a hoax, the chainsaws will be back in force.”
“Who else knows about it, except you and me?” he asked quietly, the meaning behind his question slinking into the darkness of my night and leaving me wondering what I would do.