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everything ends (but it doesn’t have to end like this)

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‘You promise me you’ll listen out for the shrieks of angels?’

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Sep 07, 2021
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‘Have you found a burrow to live in?’

‘No, Grandma. The world is not going to end. There is no world of Light coming.’

‘I saw it when I was your age. The Light was paler then and no-one burned, but so many people were lost to the Things that can see in the Light because our grandparents forget to tell us to build bu…

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