The girl’s world has been grey for some time now. Colours had dissipated—in place of blue sky, red roses, green grass and golden sun, she now sees only dreary grey. At first, she heard voices, muffled like she’d sunk underwater… then there was silence.
She’d left home about the same time that her world turned grey and silent.
Being away from home has given her freedom. She can now do whatever she wants without prying questions—“why would you do that?”—or being dismissed—“a girl shouldn’t do that!”—by her parents.
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