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Day 145 - Saturday, August 23rd
Oct. 29th, 2022 08:47 am[The status quo has been returned, like some sitcom or cartoon that always assures it does by the time the credits roll. Maybe it's pithy, but Max wouldn't mind a continuation of the daily bits and patterns, the happenings that were too big of events in the criminal and victim's minds to write off as merely a 'season 1 filler'. But they hadn't been together long enough, even if the only frame of reference for 'long' is the time they've known each other, for their relationship to be a status quo.
But this time when he sleeps, he isn't back at the hideout. That was an even shorter span of his life, and back then he wasn't aware of most of the pain in his body. You might think being asleep means he isn't aware of anything, good or bad, but some pain is persistent. To bring back a theme from the prior day, it begs for attention. Max responds by drawing back to other, more painful times and places.
Normally, whatever Max dreams, it doesn't show. But come three in the morning, sweat forms, his face contorts, the bed shifts with his weight. Normally, whenever Max dreams anything too bad, he wakes up. That's probably poetic or a reference to him having a good life, he should remember that when he dallies into writing again, but this time, unless someone decides he should leave before the film's finished, he sleeps until nine.]
But this time when he sleeps, he isn't back at the hideout. That was an even shorter span of his life, and back then he wasn't aware of most of the pain in his body. You might think being asleep means he isn't aware of anything, good or bad, but some pain is persistent. To bring back a theme from the prior day, it begs for attention. Max responds by drawing back to other, more painful times and places.
Normally, whatever Max dreams, it doesn't show. But come three in the morning, sweat forms, his face contorts, the bed shifts with his weight. Normally, whenever Max dreams anything too bad, he wakes up. That's probably poetic or a reference to him having a good life, he should remember that when he dallies into writing again, but this time, unless someone decides he should leave before the film's finished, he sleeps until nine.]
