Where Hope Resides

Where could hope have been at that time?

At the very least, it was not within me.

What I held within me back then was nothing but a sense of helplessness against a reality I could not change on my own.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it despair, but I was somehow just getting through each day with a similar state of mind.

I will absolutely not be dragged down.
I will not go down with them.
I swore it to God, so I will not abandon them.

I made up my mind and gritted my teeth.

Hope was nowhere to be found.

However.
Just as hope was the last thing remaining in the box Pandora opened, it was somewhere after all.
I simply hadn't noticed it.

Like a sixth-magnitude star, shining so faintly it was almost invisible. A modest hope was certainly there.

That is why I am alive like this now───

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A wonderful project by Rin Kiki.
Day 3 is "Hope".

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