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A boy falls fifty metres into raging water in the effort to leave a girl and town behind.

A season cycle from his death, the boy returns to the town, skin scarred in ink, body bruised but not broken.

He would see the girl crumble apart ever so slowly and painfully until one night, when the world was just that little too cold, when the air chocked lungs, when smiles became fake... She might just slip and fall.

Gabriel Foster would watch Tahlia Beckon shatter.