"His Children"

#0137. He has no family. No children of his own. He watched his daughter dissipate into the aether. She ceased to be because she was the victim of his many lives unlived. His heartbreak was real even though she never was. He adopted dolls, then, as his surrogate family. Alone, before he was imprisoned for his crimes, alone in his hovel, he cared for many porcelain children. They could not answer his questions, so he spoke for each of them. They mourned for him after he was taken away.