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“You make this place feel alive, you know,” Henry says one morning, passing Will a clean glass. The compliment settles warmly in his chest, purring like a cat.
Their days become a predictable thing, but Will can’t help but find the predictability comforting. Time starts to blur around the edges, and the days don’t end so much as they… loop. Meals repeat. The light that streams in through the windows always looks like late afternoon, warm and yellow. Eventually, he stops checking the clock. Nothing changes when he does, and he has nowhere to be, anyway. Nothing pressing. No reason to rush. All he has is right here, warm and solid against his back.
Trapped inside a carefully constructed reality, Henry offers Will a life he knows he could never have in the outside world. As fragments of the apocalypse his friends are fighting begin to bleed through the facade, however, Will is forced to confront what exactly Henry is keeping him from, and all it's costing him to stay.