The bar was quite. Almost deathly so, though Asher would not think such a pun. It was a dark night. Tuesday's always were. No shows, no drinking. No nothing but the dancers practicing their routines, the management making changes and, in this case, Asher sitting at the bar, talking softly with a tiny blonde girl.
How many months since he had last felt the need to take this seat? To sit here in the museum he had once called home when he'd first come to Las Vegas, watching the crowds and yet seeing none of them.
Life was a constant circle, and he had returned to where it all began.
His room had become a cell of his own making. He didn't even know the girl wrapped around him. They came in shifts. A new one every couple of days. They comforted. The fed. They held him
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Curled up on a bench, staring out into the dark. A piece of paper in his hands, Asher had sought a quiet place to read the words Leela had sent him. The place isolated, no one around. Just the trees and a light breeze and the scent of night flowers.
Sitting at a table in the museum cafe, the table before Asher littered with crumpled balls of linen paper. In his hand is a Monte Blanc fountain pen, the nibbed end to paper once more. But he writes slowly, pausing often to try and think.
A frown on the side of his mouth that shows, that single orb of glacier blue narrowed, saddened.