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The answer is right in front of me.
The answer is right in front of me.
The answer is right in front of me.
I kept staring at the reflection in the mirror. A corpse with sunken red eyes and pale skin. Bones peeking out a little too prominently. A soul, equally dead.
What could he mean? What did he mean? That somehow Liza is in front of me or did I know the answer already? Or was he the one who knew it. Of course, he did, but then it would mean he didn't answer my question at all. Except explain a ridiculous paradox that somehow a cat can be both dead and alive at the same time which is not possible.
A cat, a radioactive substance, a radiation detector, a hammer, and poison.
If the cat was Liza then I was the radiation? The radiation detector... Dimitri and the hammer and poison just tools? It made sense only partially.
I sighed and looked away from the mirror. The sight revolting me as I felt disgusted of the shell
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