Chapter I.1
The flower I picked up some minutes ago lost its bright color that caught my eye the first time I passed by. Its petals were rippled, its flaccid stem… It was faded, I think.
I felt bad.
I thought I’d finally found in this world an ounce of life…
Well, it seems like life itself is no longer destined to live, it’s a shame…
But now I knew not to tear a flower from the ground ; Next time, I’ll put it in a container with some dirt, taking care not to damage its roots.
It’s a shame that life is so fragile…
By the way…, how long did this uprooted flower survive?
Time, time.. I knew that it was something important in this world, but it wasn’t my fault. I just couldn’t figure out what it meant.
Perhaps this poor thing died as soon as I took it out of the Earth, or had it breathed herself out of breath until its body emptied of all vitality? Either way, I blamed myself.
I then placed its dry envelope in the earth ; I thought it might make it happy to return to its family. But it was stupid to think like that. Its family died. The Earth died. And now, it died too. And I was the one that killed it. I felt so sorry about it…
I didn’t know what the procedure was when someone died, so I just stroked its lifeless petals off my index finger and asked it to forgive me for being ignorant. To be ignorant.
After a few moments, I thought it was better for me to get back on the road; it was dangerous to stay too long in the same place now, especially as I was getting closer to the city ; surveillance was increased there. Although it did not bother me, this surveillance there ; I did not know why it ignored me, and in the city, everyone ignored me. The only one that made me think that I existed was the ground on which my footprints remained, dampened by the rain that had been falling since... since... I didn’t know. Actually, I couldn’t figure out the time.
That’s why I didn’t know how many minutes were gonna go by until I got to the city. All I had to do was start walking, for now, I would wonder what I was going to do once I got in. I was hoping to find life. Hope...? No, I’m not likely to hope for anything. Yes, I was just going to walk. Just like every time.
The ground was wet, I felt my feet sinking slightly into the earth. The earth was cold... But it didn’t bother me, I didn’t even know if I was really able to feel the cold. It looked like it stopped raining, but some kind of mist was swallowing my way. I didn’t like the fog, you never know what it could regurgitate. I had to make sure to stay on the path. The path ... There had never been a path. I was going to walk straight, we were going to see where it was going to take me. With any luck, I was going to find a new flower...
It was a big city, I didn’t think I’d ever been there... Not that I would remember if I had, but certainly there would have been footprints at the entrance, and it would have had to be mine, since no one can get out of the city. Yeah, except for me.
