He was going stir-crazy.
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He ripped his hands away. The floor was solid. The phone screen was black. The silence returned, but it was different now. It wasn’t empty. It was full—pregnant with the echo of what he had just done. He was going stir-crazy
He never did. But some nights, just before dawn, he would tap his fingers on the tatami— don, ka, don, don —just to remind the silence who was listening. just before dawn