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23. Your muse is a soldier in the war, mine is their lover back home — they exchange letters.
War… was a cruel thing indeed. It devastated the land, threw lifes into misery and worst of all, tore people apart that belonged together. It was a horrible thing. Families lost their sons, wifes their husbands, lovers each other. Truly, anyone who desired war knew nothing of it’s pain and sorrow.
And yet still, it seemed so inevitable that wars occured and ravaged the land. As if they were a force of nature like the tides, they always returned, for history to write itself again and again. He knew of this… He knew it all too well. And he was more than aware that one day, he’d end up suffering from a war’s effects on life.
He only had never thought it would be this way around.
Not he had been the soldier that fought on the battlefields, but her. And he had been left behind, never knowing whether the letters he wrote would reach her or not, and if she would still be able to reply to them.
Yet still, he cannot stop it, he needs to write her, once every week.
To tell her that he misses her.
To tell her that he is praying for her safe return and the war to end soon.
To tell her that he longs for her.
To tell her that it's not the same living here without her.
To tell her that he can't forget her.
To tell her that he wants to be with her again and hold her.
To tell her... that he loves her...
And that he hopes that maybe this time, he'll get a reply from her again... And an answer once she's back.
The ring he bought before the war broke out is sitting on the same spot on his desk next to her picture as it had every day since.