Vacation
“Her hands lie on the cold ground, upward and curled like two flowers. Two wilted flowers, that you want to save, but there isn’t any water. She stares at the black in front of her, and when you focus on darkness, your expression never changes.
I sit beside her. This is the part when I’m supposed to give up. When I beg Noh to send me home again.
She doesn’t face me, but she says, “You understand language. Perhaps you can clarify something for me.”
“What is it?” I say.
“The word fatal. Why is it ...that a term which relates to fate has come to be associated with death?”
“I don’t know.”
“Is death the only fate we as human beings think about? We’re so preoccupied with fighting death that we often stop enjoying life as a consequence. Death is such an ordinary element of reality, and yet we treat it—”
“You don’t have to do this. You don’t have to die.”
“I already explained the—”
“You can fake the execution.”
“Yes, it would be possible to fake my death.MoreLess
I sit beside her. This is the part when I’m supposed to give up. When I beg Noh to send me home again.
She doesn’t face me, but she says, “You understand language. Perhaps you can clarify something for me.”
“What is it?” I say.
“The word fatal. Why is it ...that a term which relates to fate has come to be associated with death?”
“I don’t know.”
“Is death the only fate we as human beings think about? We’re so preoccupied with fighting death that we often stop enjoying life as a consequence. Death is such an ordinary element of reality, and yet we treat it—”
“You don’t have to do this. You don’t have to die.”
“I already explained the—”
“You can fake the execution.”
“Yes, it would be possible to fake my death.MoreLess
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