May 27, 2017

I walked into the grocery store and saw him standing in front of the vegetables again. I asked if he had really been standing here for the past four hours and he denied it while holding a carrot. We started talking about what he was going to take next semester. He was thinking about taking a few history classes.

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The ruler of an interstellar empire had been known to go down the the surface of various planets to prevent the suicides of his citizens. However this time he was the one taking his own life, with a request to send off his preserved heart in order to pay off a galactic debt.