Fragments from the Vault #007: Always the Quiet, Endless the Dark

I only cared that you didn't live out our chaos -

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Game: The Long Dark

Location: Somewhere in Canada's sub-zero wilderness, after the geomagnetic disaster

More information: Aurora | The Long Dark Wiki | Fandom

Solitude. Screen capture & edit: FetchQuester

The dark is long,

And the quiet: Neverending.

The scent of frost on skin 

As you crossed from the rift

and into the warmth of

Our primal heart, 

Gathering grief

From your blister-gnawed hands

While the chill of a swan song hung in the air

Above spike-necked cedars 

Clustering northbound

 In latitudes expired -

I waited outside where the wolves

Stained our porch and the chalky

Vanguards of polestar pastures

Gave the aurora the last of your light,

Leaving me with nothing!

But the salvage of singular mercy:

A sole steel casing ground up on your shelf,

Your absence to fill my hungry abyss -

And always the quiet, endless the dark.

- Lucy A.

The hostile North. Screen capture & edit: FetchQuester

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Sources: 

The Long Dark (Hinterland Studios); fandom.com

*Dedicated to those who left.