And now... could Daniel Harris be under this "little rooftop"?
Mabel Quinn walked forward step by step, finally seeing a figure curled up underneath the small rooftop. It was the middle of winter, yet he was only wearing a thin sweater, suitable for an air-conditioned room, not enough to fend off the cold outside.
That was... Daniel Harris... but he overlapped with the mory of Isaac Zimrman from the past.
Mabel took a deep breath, stepped forward, and said, "Why did you suddenly co here alone? Don’t you know how many people would worry about you?"
The curled-up figure moved slightly. He raised his head, his eyes startling her, filled with a lifelessness as if nothing mattered to him anymore.
"Do you know what this place is?" he asked, ignoring her question.
She was taken aback, then said, "I know."
He said in a low voice, "It’s amazing. Just like back then, I can’t see anything now, but maybe because I’m blind, I have deeper insights into other things. Step by step, I walked back here. When I touched this tree, I knew it was the tree from the ti you found back then."
"Yes, it’s right here," Mabel said. Just by relying on his mories from years ago, Daniel intentionally returned here despite his blindness, which surprised her.
But it also indicated how profound this mory was for Daniel Harris.
Daniel’s voice rang lowly again, "Once, when I couldn’t see anything, I thought the greatest unfairness in the world was this: so people commit all sorts of bad deeds and yet have healthy bodies, while others, who have done nothing wrong, are born unable to see anything. They don’t know what the sky is like, or what mountains or the sea look like... Back then, my world was dark. But one day, a girl kept talking in my ear, telling about the various colors of this world, and eventually, she turned my world colorful."
After pausing a mont, he slowly stood up, his hand touching the branch beside him, "Once, I thought I was useless, wanted to end it all, so I ran up the mountain. But right here, the girl who turned my world colorful ca to find . She told I was not useless, that my future would be better than others’ and full of possibilities! She dragged down the mountain — and at that ti, I wondered how I could ever repay her in my lifeti."
Mabel moved her lips and said, "But that little girl doesn’t need you to repay her for anything."
"Yeah, she doesn’t need it." Daniel laughed softly, yet it seed laced with endless bitterness. "Just like how, for now, the biggest unfairness isn’t whether or not my eyes can see, but that clearly I was the one who knew you first, that clearly, we had so many shared experiences. But in the end, the person who can walk down the road with you isn’t . If only I hadn’t made mistake after mistake back then, if I had recognized you earlier, would we have..."
"No, we wouldn’t," Mabel interrupted, "Even if Grace Yowell hadn’t intervened back then, and you recognized , there might not have been anything between us."
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