Chapter 1: Ch 1: Curtains Closed?

Kadar's fingers felt numb. Perhaps if it was snowing, he wouldn't have minded going out too much. The last time it snowed was when he was twelve, after all.

But no.

It was just a cold day. 

The worst kind of day.

On most days that he'd overslept, Kadar would simply run frantically to work with little to no consequence other than being slightly out of breath. Screw the jeers and sidelong glances he'd receive on the way. Why couldn't one run in public without being made to feel awkward? But today, Mother Nature had heavily mined the streets with frozen puddles, and the throbbing pain he'd received from detonating one had more than convinced him to slow down

Limping slightly, Kadar switched to speed-walking and within a few minutes, found himself at another obstacle to arriving to work on time. The wide-ass road junction.

Bloody cars... 

Since there were no traffic lights nearby, he'd have to find an opening in the traffic to cross the safely. But due to rush-hour, all the vehicles passing by moved at a speed that was too fast to exploit and just slow enough to clog up the road. The result was terrible traffic and a horde of angry drivers who had a higher likelihood of ignoring any hand signals Kadar made for safe passage. 

If he were to die at any point today, it would most probably be here. 

Everything hurts. Maybe I should just take the day off... I don't even need to be there anyway...

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Just then his phone vibrated.

A message?

Still unable to cross, Kadar pulled it out from his coat pocket and began scrolling through his DMs.

 

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