or that one about the boy and his dog.
Only, she and Pepper are both girls.
"Walking on the slabs," she says...
"where the hospital used to be...
"I can feel the end of the world."
"Not the brutality," she says,
"but the loneliness."
Pepper catches the scent
of a dog that was left behind.
She can smell them everywhere...
The ghosts of her kind.
In the back of her throat,
she tastes the end of the world.
Not the brutality.
But the loneliness.