I don’t want to be alone.

Muse A is known to most as the weirdo on the beach. Muse A is seen most days sitting alone down the beach, often at sunset, journal in hand writing or painting or just staring at the waves. 

Most people assume Muse A is an eccentric writer or artist and think little of it or of Muse A, leaving them to their own thing. 

Muse A is in fact cursed with their loneliness, the water at the beach is the only thing that calms the storm in their soul and makes them feel part of the world. They watch day turn to night, writing about their dream for their own life to transform as each day does, to change as the tide does. But days go by and Muse A remains a lone, like a grain of sand on the beach that no one ever notices even though it makes up the greater picture.

Muse B works at a cafe near the beach and notices Muse A each day as they head for the beach and sit, barely moving. Muse B feels a strange affinity with Muse A and is trying to get beyond their own crippling shyness and approach Muse A, before the loneliness claims Muse A. 

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