Between Hope and Goodbye. Content Warning.
Now I finally understood — the girl I had been searching for the past eight days… maybe she was just a figment of my imagination. This city was so vast, so crowded, that I had lost all hope. It felt as if the clouds had stopped crying, and the river had changed its course. The buildings towered over me like silent witnesses to my failure. I was completely exhausted. I had searched for her everywhere, hoping that some sign, some whisper of her presence, would appear. But now, I just couldn’t go on.
