"I feel so far from everything out here." True, she was miles away from all that she knew well, but the distance she felt was something ignorant of physical space. At home, curled up and held by familiar arms she felt as alone as in this quiet town where the people looked down as they walked and the muted sky caused the ringing in her ears to remind her of the stalking silence.
He told her that he missed her too, but that wasn't what she meant. After she hung up the phone she walked out on the balcony of her second floor hotel room and stared out at the road below. A streetlight flickered and buzzed and the sound made her wonder if someone was sending her a message in Morse code, something urgent that she couldn't decipher. And so she stood there leaning over the balcony, staring at the failing light until it no longer stammered in its speech and finally conceded to silence in the ever quieting night. Still, she stood, waiting for something she hoped would come by morning.
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