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Falling hurts less than seeing someone fall.
Falling is a freedom from life, from pain.
Falling is often done willingly by those hurting.
Falling is fast and weightless.
Falling is freeing.
Icarus was freed.
Seeing someone fall is a weight attached to your ankles, making you sink, and trapping your moves.
Seeing someone fall is like a guilt, knowing you may have been able to stop them if you just tried harder.
Seeing someone fall is a never ending cycle of memories, always coming back to haunt you.
Seeing someone fall is being questioned by others, and then being reprimanded for being a bystander when the situation was entirely out of your hands.
Seeing someone fall is imprisoning.
Daedalus was imprisoned.
And in every story he is seen as someone trying to escape-
And yet every time, Daedalus is simply a footnote in the story of Icarus.