It was a deadly serious revelation, but spot on accurate.
He couldn't believe it took so long for him to suss it out.
Square peg in a round hole. That was how he lived his life.
Up to now.
Strangely, given all that had been chipped off of him, splintered to the ground, and rounded out by the continuous pounding to make him fit, he retained his shape. More or less.
Had he not stood in the same place for so long he could have avoided some of the blows to the head.
It doesn't matter. He was moving now and that is what counts.
Moving in his mind to a place of limited choices. One choice, really.
The choice to not do as he had always done.
The charade was over because it could no longer be maintained. At least not without dire consequences.
He would continue, out of habit, to pretend to consider well-meaning advice, knowing in his heart that the words were directed towards someone who does not exist.
The only advice that mattered now was his own.
It was time to step out into shocking new territory.
To counter the question "Where did that come from?" with the answer "It was there. It has always been there."
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