Part One: 

The curtains are drawn closed upon a dimly lit window framing the silhouette of a man pacing in metronome time. His body, cast in shades of black, sways back and forth in moody tones with head in hand at one pass and arms clutched around his torso on the next. She watches in silence as the man’s dilemma oozes from the windowsill of the old brownstone building in one long sheet of grey thought. She pulls the liquid drape up over her shoulders, warming herself in a drape woven from his suffering. She is starving and sick to her stomach. She wants to empty herself inside out and fill herself up with his pain.

“This will be the last time,” she whispers into the cold night air, “We can’t go on like this.” Her words travel on white blooms of breath, loping across the alleyway puffing up and up towards his windowsill. They arrive at their destination with one loud knock.

He stops pacing. The curtains are thrown open. He unlocks the window and the brisk night air washes over his body in a delicious wave of purification. The whisper taps out a message on his body that begins in his hands and moves up along his arms, calming his clutching fists and worried arms into submission. It takes a few minutes but his hands and arms finally submit, dangling from his torso in a happy retreat, as they obediently await their next order.

“Please forgive me,” he releases the words out into the cold night air.

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