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I heard about the storm. Are you okay?

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Owain?

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Please get somewhere with cell reception please respond to me soon

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Inigo and Severa aren't answering either. Are they with you?

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Owain, I'm worried sick

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Owain, please

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Owain charge your fucking phone and reply to me I swear to Naga,

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I have been checking my phone every day hoping for a response from you.

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The police has yet to find your body. This is my greatest hope and deepest despair.

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They found Inigo's car at the bottom of a canyon. There were no trace of any of you inside.

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Owain, where are you?

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Please come back to me

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They say you might have run away

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Did you?

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Why would you? Do you feel unsafe here? Is it something I've said?

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Was it not something we could have talked about?

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I wish that were true. I wish you had run away. I wish I were a terrible mother.

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At least that way I'd know for sure you were alive.

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People keep asking me about you. Your college. your landlord. Your other friend. I have to explain everytime what happened and how little I know of it.

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It hurts.

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Lucina told me you were dating. All three of you.

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Why did you hide it from me? Did you think I would reject you for it?

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My love for you is unconditional. You are my son and always will be. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing.

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I wish I could have told you that.

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The case still isn't closed, but I can tell the police has stopped searching.

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Please... if you are out there, anywhere, please give me a sign.

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I locked your old room up. It's too painful to walk past it.

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I went to the old lake today. I could not bear to watch Halloween unfold knowing you wouldn't knock at my door this year.

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Found your birthday present in the attic. Hurry up and come back so I can give it to you.

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Happpy new yer

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I am. SO drunk.

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Everything reminds me of you. I can't go into a bookstore without seeing a novel you would love. I can't step outside in the streets without remembering you playing in it as a kid. Even my own reflection keeps plaguing me with your eyes.

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It has been a year

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happy birthday

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I decided to clean up your old room. Move some things in the attic. It's too early to throw it away, but... I can't leave the room like this.

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It's a mess. Wish me luck.

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Found all your old notebooks. What a trip down memory lane. I used to help you write those, remember? I can literally see how your handwriting evolved over time.

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Found your love letters.

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You know, in retrospect, I should have known. You three were always so close.

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I hope they're with you, wherever you are.

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There is an empty spot at the end of the table, and no one mentions it but we all know it's you. We all avert our eyes and pretend not to see when Chrom brings yet again an extra plate.

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I wish you were dead. I wish you'd given me a grave and a body and a funeral. I wish you'd left me any sort of closure. Then maybe I could properly grieve.

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I lied. Above all, above all, I wish you were with me right now..

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I have gathered all your old notebooks and story notes. I'm trying to string them together in a compilation of stories. I can hear your voice through every page. When I will be done, I will hide your book in the deepest corner of the bookcase and maybe this open wound will stop festering.

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It has been two years.

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I wonder if you based Laslow and Selena off Inigo and Severa. The resemblance is uncanny! Plus, the narrator is often so obviously pining for them. Projecting much?

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I wish I could have gotten to tease you about this. I wish you hadn't felt like you needed to hide.

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I wish you were there.

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Son, you have written way too much. I've been at this for months, and I'm barely even halfway through.

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I talked about you to Lucina. She misses you a lot, too.

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I haven't talked to anyone about you in a year. It felt good. To think back to happy memories about you, to grieve you together.

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She agreed to help me with your writing. I'm looking forward to it.

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I got a new phone. Same number. I lost all my old contacts, though. Maribelle told me it would be good for me, to lose your number. But Henry had memorized it by heart, and when he asked me if I wanted it, I said yes.

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I guess neither of us will get rid of the other that easily, huh?

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Thought of you today.

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I heard they wanted to make a documentary about the Storm. I bet you'd be all over that, huh? A mysterious hurricane swiping through a tourist town, leaving nobody and no body in its wake. It sounds like the kind of mystery you'd eat right up.

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Not gonna lie, if you were to become a story protagonist, I could have far better liked for that story to be a heroic fantasy one. The kind where the hero comes back covered in glory and riches.

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Or any story where the hero comes back at all, really.

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I lied again. I said I heard about it. The truth is, they directly contacted me to ask for my point of view on things. Some people were found after the Storm, some had genuinely ran away, but you and the other two were among the few we have genuinely not a clue about the whereabouts.

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I told them maybe. I'm not sure... I'm not sure I can speak of you to strangers like that. But I'd like to try. I think. It's what you'd have wanted, wouldn't it? To be an urban legend hero.

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Maybe this would help me move on, too.

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Happy birthday

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I gave your birthday present to the kid next door. I figured it would be better to let it live through someone else's hands rather than just collect dust... here.

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I completed that compilation I told you about. Your writing became so much better in the last few years. Some of your stories were unfortunately unfinished, but I included them regardless. This book is for our family and our family alone, anyway.

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I thought it would hurt more to bind it at last. But the ache of your loss has now dulled. It still hurts, and I think it always will, like an old scar. I But when I think of you, I find myself smiling. When the kids next door ask about your rock collection, I can answer without choking on my tears.

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I will not hide that book. I will set it in my bookcase, in plain sight, and when I will think of you, I will pull it out and go through your words again.

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This will be my last message to you. I think it is about time I put you to rest.

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I love you, Owain, my son. I have loved you before you were even born. May we meet again, in a better life.

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