His phone's wallpaper was her photograph, one where she was smiling and looking back, as if that glance could give him the whole world.
"Mabel, you'll come back, won't you? I'll wait for you, wait for you to return." He murmured, his fingers sliding across her image on the screen.
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Mabel Quinn didn't know how much time had passed now because her arms and hands were being held by Daniel Harris, so she couldn't take out her phone to check the time. But she could roughly feel that it had probably exceeded an hour by now.
When another joke was finished, Mabel said, "Big Blind, get some rest. Little Blind will come see you another day, okay? Little Blind has something to do and really must leave."
"Can't you stay a little longer?" Daniel Harris said. When she told him those jokes, he truly felt as if he was back in Drumbeat Village, where everything was so wonderful. It seemed like all the pain and self-blame, regret, could temporarily be forgotten.
