#rip khml

I'm sure I'm not the first one to notice, but Strelitzia's hair pins make XI, which is Marluxia's number in Organization XIII.

You're overwhelmed with relief when you spot me sitting on a rotting stump and using a hunting knife to sharpen the end of a stick into a pointed spear.

You ask me if I can show you the way back to the trail. I continue to chew the end of my cigarette. you wonder if I heard you. Your friend tells you not to bother me. Says theyd heard stories about the crazy old coot that lives in the forest, forever searching for things that could never exist- Bigfoot, Mothman, The Loch Ness Monster... You think they may be right, but... If that's the truth, then you gotta know. You cant help the words that tumble from you lip like the first trickle of a deluge.

"You ever hear of the legend of Kingdom Hearts Missing Link?

You ask me-- what am I searching for? What could be worth *so much* that it has driven me to become little more than a spectre myaelf.

The question hangs in the air between us- like and empty picture frame. Only silence where answers should be.

Ink October day 21 : Horseless

Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; -- said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.. It was used primarily in the term “horseless carriage”, to refer to automobiles. By the 1930's when automobiles had become more common than horses for transportation, the term had lost its currency.