[In the silence, Silver melts away. By the time he reaches the other side of the garden, he realizes: being here without her, it is not the same place. The spaces her body once filled with tender work now only hold ghosts of memories. It feels empty despite being so overwhelmingly full. It's just a garden, a patch of dirt hosting plants, yet it can never be just that.
He sinks to his knees beside a rock just outside the garden's border, at the spot where he'd given Kaori her birthday gift. He sets his bag on the ground next to him, eyes never leaving the flowers as he just breathes.]
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He sinks to his knees beside a rock just outside the garden's border, at the spot where he'd given Kaori her birthday gift. He sets his bag on the ground next to him, eyes never leaving the flowers as he just breathes.]